a race AM I not an apostle am I not free * Chap. 15.8 have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord are not you my work in the Lord 2 If I be not an apostle unto others yet doubtless I am to you for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. 3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this 4 Have we not power to eat and to drink 5 Have we not power to lead about a sister a ‖ Or woman wife as well as other apostles and as the brethren of the Lord and Cephas 6 Or I onely and Barnabas have not we power to forbear working 7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof or who feedeth a flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock 8 Say I these things as a man or saith not the law the same also 9 For it is written in the law of Moses * Deut. 25.4 Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn Doth God take care for oxen 10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes for our sakes no doubt this is written that he that ploweth should plow in hope and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope 11 * Rom. 15.27 If we have sown unto you spiritual things is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things 12 If others be partakers of this power over you are not we rather Nevertheless we have not used this power but suffer all things lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ 13 * Num. 18.20 Deut. 10.9 and 18.1 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things ‖ Or feed live of the things of the temple and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar 14 Even so hath the Lord ordained * Gal. 6.6 1 Tim. 5.17 that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel 15 But I have used none of these things Neither have I written these things that it should be so done unto me for it were better for me to die then that any man should make my glorying void 16 For though I preach the gospel I have nothing to glory of for necessity is laid upon me yea wo is unto me if I preach not the gospel 17 For if I do this thing willingly I have a reward but if against my will a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me 18 What is my reward then verily that when I preach the gospel I may make the gospel of Christ without charge that I abuse not my power in the gospel 19 For though I be free from all men yet have I made my self servant unto all that I might gain the more 20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew that I might gain the Jews to them that are under the law as under the law that I might gain them that are under the law 21 To them that are without law as without law being not without law to God but under the law to Christ that I might gain them that are without law 22 To the weak became I as weak that I might gain the weak I am made all things to all men that I might by all means save â—ome 23 And this I do for the gospels sake that I may be partaker thereof with you 24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all but one receiveth the prize So run that ye may obtain 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown but we an incorruptible 26 I therefore so run not as uncertainly so fight I not as one that beateth the air 27 But I keep under my body and bring it into subjection lest that by any means when I have preached to others I my self should be a cast-away CHAP. X. 1 The sacraments of the Jews 6 are types of ours 7 and their punishments 11 examples for us 14 We must fee from idolatry 21 We must not make the Lords table the table of devils 24 and in things indifferent we must have regard of our brethren MOreover brethren I would not that ye should be ignorant how that all our fathers were under * Ex. 13 21. Num. 9.18 the cloud and all passed through * Ex. 14.22 the sea 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea 3 And did all eat the same * Ex. 16.15 spiritual meat 4 And did all drink the same * Ex. 17.6 Num. 20.11 spiritual drink For they drank of that spiritual Rock that ‖ Or went with them followed them and that Rock was Christ 5 But with many of them God was not well pleased for they * Num. 26.65 were overthrown in the wilderness 6 Now these things were †Gr. our figures our examples to the intent we should not lust after evil things as * Num. 11.4 Psa 106.14 they also lusted 7 Neither be ye idolaters as were some of them as it is written * Ex. 32.6 The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play 8 Neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed and * Num. 25.9 fell in one day three and twenty thousand 9 Neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted and * Num. 21.6 were destroyed of serpents 10 Neither murmure ye as some of them also murmured and * Num. 14.37 were destroyed of the destroyer 11 Now all these things hapned unto them for ‖ Or types ensamples and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come 12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall 13 There hath no temptation taken you but ‖ Or moderate such as is common to man but God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that ye may be able to bear it 14 Wherefore my dearly beloved flee from idolatry 15 I speak as to wise men judge ye what I say 16 The cup of blessing which we bless is it not the communion of the bloud of Christ The bread which we break is it not the communion of the body of Christ 17 For we being many are one bread and one body for we are all partakers of that one bread 18 Behold Israel after the flesh are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar 19 What say I then that the idol is any thing or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing 20 But I say that the things which the Gentiles * Deut. 32.17 Psal 106.37 sacrifice they sacrifice to devils and not to God and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils 21
and with profane hands pulling down the things that were dedicated by other kings to the augmentation and glory and honour of the place he gave them away 17 And so haughty was Antiochus in minde that he considered not that the Lord was angry for a while for the sins of them that dwelt in the city and therefore his eye was not upon the place 18 For had they not been formerly wrapped in many sins this man assoon as he had come had forthwith been scourged and put back from his presumption as Heliodorus was whom Seleucus the king sent to view the treasury 19 Nevertheless God did not choose the people for the places sake but the place for the peoples sake 20 And therefore the place it self that was partaker with them of the adversity that hapned to the nation did afterward communicate in the benefits sent from the Lord and as it was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty so again the great Lord being reconciled it was set up with all glory 21 So when Antiochus had carried out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents he departed in all haste unto Antiochia weening in his pride to make the land navigable and the sea passable by foot such was the haughtiness of his minde 22 And he left governours to vâ—x the nation at Jerusalem Philip for his countrey a Phrygian and for manners more barbarous then he that set him there 23 And at Garizim Andronicus and besides Menelaus who worse then all the rest bare an heavy hand over the citizens having a malicious minde against his countreymen the Jews 24 He sent also that detestable ring-leader Apollonius with an army of two twenty thousand commanding him to slay all those that were in their best age and to sell the women and the younger sort 25 Who coming to Jerusalem and pretending pâ—â—â—â— dâ—â—â—orbear till the holy-day of the sabbath when taking the Jews keeping holy-day he commanded his men to arm themselves 26 And so he slew all them that were gone to the celebrating of the sabbath and running through the city with weapons â—lâ—w great multitudes 27 But Judas Maccabeus †Gr who was the tenth with nine others or thereabout withdrew himself into the wilderness and lived in the mountains after the manner of beasts with his company who fed on herbs continually lest they should be partakers of the pollution CHAP. VI. 1 The Jews are compelled to leave the law of God 4 The temple is defiled 8 Cruelty upon the people and the nomâ— 12 〈◊〉 exhorâ—â— ion 〈◊〉 bear affliction by the example of the valiaâ—â—â—ouâ—aâ—e of E. 〈◊〉 cruelly tâ—rtured NOt long after this the king sent an old man of ‖ Antioâ—b the Laune interpreters Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and not to live after the laws of God 2 And to pollute also the temple in Jerusalem and to call it the temple of Jupiter Olympius and that in Garizun of Jupiter the defender of strangers ‖ Out of Joseph 1.12 cap. 7. or as they werâ— as they did desire that dwelt in the place 3 The coming in of this mischief was sore and grievous to the people 4 For the temple was filled with not and revelling by the Gentiles who dallied with harlots and had to do with women within the circuit of the holy places and besides that brought in things that were not lawful 5 The altar also was filled with profane things which the law forbiddeth 6 Neither was it lawful for a man to keep sabbath-days or ancient feasts or to profess himself at all to be a Jew 7 And in the day of the kings birth every moneth they were brought by bitter constraint to eat of the sacrifices and when the feast of Bacchus was kept the Jews were compelled to go in procession to Bacchus carrying ivie 8 Moreover there went out a decree to the neighbour cities of the †Gr Grecians heathen by the suggestion of Ptolemee against the Jews that they should observe the same fashions be partakers of their sacrifices 9 And whoso would not conform themselves to the manners of the Gentiles should be put to death Then might a man have seen the present misery 10 For there were two women brought who had circumcised their children whom when they had openly led round about the city the babes hanging at their breasts they cast them down headlong from the wall 11 And others that had run together into caves near by to keep the sabbath-day secretly being discovered to Philip were all burnt together because they made a conscience to help themselves for the honour of the most sacred day 12 Now I beseech those that read this book that they be not discouraged for these calamities but that they judge those punishments not to be for destruction but for a chastning of our nation 13 For it is a token of his great goodness when wicked doers are not suffered any long time but forthwith punished 14 For not as with other nations whom the Lord patiently forbeareth to punish till they be come to the fulness of their sins so dealeth he with us 15 Lest that being come to the height of sin afterwards he should take vengeance of us 16 And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us And though he punish with adversity yet doth he never forsake his people 17 But let this that we have spoken be for a warning unto us And now will we come to the declaring of the matter in few words 18 Eleazar one of the principal scribes an aged man and of a well-savoured countenance was constrained to open his mouth and to eat swines flesh 19 But he choosing rather to die gloriously then to live stained with such an abomination spirit it forth and came of his own accord to the torment 20 As it behoved them to come that are resolute to stand out against such things as are not lawful for love of life to be tasted 21 But they that had the charge of that wicked feast for the old acquaintance they had with the man taking him aside besought him to bring flesh of his own provision such as was lawful for him to use and make as if he did eat of the flesh taken from the sacrifice commanded by the king 22 That in so doing he might he delivered from death and for the old friendship with them finde favour 23 But he began to consider discreetly and as became his age and the excellency of his ancient years and the honour of his gray head whereunto he was come and his most honest education from a childe or rather the holy law made and given by God therefore he answered accordingly and willed them straightways to send him to the grave 24 For it becometh not our age said he in any wise to dissemble whereby many young persons might think that Eleazar being fourscore years old and ten were now gone to a strange religion 25
dishonourest thou God 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you as it is * Isa 52.5 Ezek. 36.20.23 written 25 For circumcision verily profiteth if thou keep the law but if thou be a breaker of the law thy circumcision is made uncircumcision 26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision 27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature if it fulfil the law judge thee who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law 28 For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh 29 But he is a Jew which is one inwardly and circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit and not in the letter whose praise is not of men but of God CHAP. III. 1 The Jews prerogative 3 which they have not lost 9 Howbeit the law convinceth them also of sin 20 Therefore no flesh is justified by the law 28 but all without difference by saith onely 31 and yet the law is not abolished WHat advantage then hath the Jew or what profit is there of circumcision 2 Much every way chiefly because that unto them were committed the oracles of God 3 For what it some did not beleeve shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect 4 God forbid yea let God be true but * Ps 116.11 every man a liar as it is written * Ps 51.4 That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings and mightest overcome when thou art judged 5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God what shall we say Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance I speak as a man 6 God forbid for then how shall God judge the world 7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory why yet am I also judged as a sinner 8 And not rather as we be slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say Let us do evil that good may come whose damnation is just 9 What then are we better then they No in no wise for we have before †Gr. charged proved both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin 10 As it is written * Ps 14.1 2 3. There is none righteous no not one 11 There is none that understandeth there is none that seeketh after God 12 They are all gone out of the way they are together become unprofitable there is none that doeth good no not one 13 * Psal 5.9 Their throat is an open sepulchre with their tongues they have used deceit * Ps 140.3 the poison of asps is under their lips 14 * Ps 10.7 Whos 's mouth is full of cursing and bitterness 15 * Pro. 1.16 Isa 59.7 8. Their feet are swift to shed bloud 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways 17 And the way of peace have they not known 18 * Psa 36.1 There is no fear of God before their eyes 19 Now we know that what things soever the law faith it faith to them who are under the law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become ‖ Or. subject to the judgement of God guilty before God 20 Therefore * Gal. 2.16 by the deeds or the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight for by the law is the knowledge of sin 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested being witnessed by the law and the prophets 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that beleeve for there is no difference 23 For all have sinned and com◠short of the glory of God 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ 25 Whom God hath ‖ Or fore-ordained set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his bloud to declare his righteousness for the ‖ Or passing over remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God 26 To declare I say at this time his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of him which beleeveth in Jesus 27 Where is boasting then It is excluded By what law of works Nay but by the law of faith 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law 29 Is he the God of the Jews onley is he not also of the Gentiles Yes of the Gentiles also 30 Seeing it is one God which shall justifie the circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith 31 Do we then make void the law through faith God forbid yea we establish the law CHAP. IV. 1 Abrahams faith was imputed to him for righteousness to before be was circumcised 13 By faith onely be and his seed received the promise 16 Abraham is the father of all that beleeve 24 Our faith also shall be imputed to us for righteousness WHat shall we say then that Abraham our father as pertaining to the flesh hath found 2 For if Abraham were justified by works he hath whereof to glory but not before God 3 For what faith the scripture * Gen. 15.6 Gal. 3.6 Jam. 2.23 Abraham beleeved God and it was counted unto him for righteousness 4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt 5 But to him that worketh not but beleeveth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness 6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works 7 Saying * Psal 32.1 Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered 8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin 9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision onely or upon the uncircumcision also For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness 10 How was it then reckoned when he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision not in circumcision but in uncircumcision 11 And he received the signe of circumcision a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised that he might be the father of all them that beleeve though they be not circumcised that righteousness might be imputed unto them also 12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision onely but also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he had being yet uncircumcised 13 For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law but through the righteousness of faith 14 For if they which are of the law be heirs faith is made void and the promise made of none effect 15 Because the law worketh wrath for where no law is there is no transgression 16 Therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace to the
his friend Hirah the Adullamite 13 And it was told Tamar saying Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep 14 And she put her widows garments off from her and covered her with a vail and wrapped her self and sat in †Heb. the door of â—â—es or of Enajim an open place which is by the way to Timnath for she saw that Shelah was grown and she was not given unto him to wife 15 When Judah saw her he thought her to be an harlot because she had covered her face 16 And he turned unto her by the way and said Go to I pray thee let me come in unto thee for he knew not that she was his daughter in â—aw and she said What wilt thou give me that thou mayest come in unto me 17 And he said I will send thee †Heb. a kâ—d of the â—oats a kid from the flock and she said Wilt thou give me a pledge till thou send it 18 And he said What pledge shall I give thee And she said Thy signet and thy bracelets and thy staff that is in thine hand and he gave it her and came in unto her and she conceived by him 19 And she arose and went away and laid by her vail from her and put on the garments of her widowhood 20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite to receive his pledge from the womans hand but he found her not 21 Then he asked the men of that place saying Where is the harlot that was ‖ Or in Enajim openly by the way side And they said There was no harlot in this place 22 And he returned to Judah and said I cannot finde her and also the men of the place said that there was no harlot in this place 23 And Judah said Let her take it to her lest we †Heb. become a contempt be shamed behold I sent this kid and thou hast not found her 24 ¶ And it came to pass about three moneths after that it was told Judah saying Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot and also behold she is with câ—â—lde by whoredom and Judah said Bring her forth and let her burnt 25 When she was brought â—orth she sent to her father in law saying By the man whose these are am I with childe and she said Discern I pray thee whose are these the signet and bracelets and staff 26 And Judah acknowledged them and said She hath been more righteous then I because that I gave her not to Shelah my son and he knew her again no more 27 ¶ And it came to pass in the time of her travail that behold twins were in her womb 28 And it came to pass when she travailed that the one put out his hand and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet threed saying This came out first 29 And it came to pass as he drew back his hand that behold his brother came out and she said ‖ Or wherefore hast thou made â—his breach against thee How hast thou broken forth this breach be upon thee therefore his name was called ‖ That is a breach * 1 Chro. 2.4 Matth. 1.3 Pharâ—z 30 And afterward came out his brother that had the scarlet threed upon his hand and his name was called Zarah CHAP. XXXIX 1 Joseph advanced in Potiphars house 7 He resisteth his mistresses temptation 13 He is falsly accused 19 He is cast in prison 21 God is with him there ANd Joseph was brought down to Egypt and Potiphar an officer of Pharaoh captain of the guard an Egyptian bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites which had brought him down thither 2 And the LORD was with Joseph and he was a prosperous man and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian 3 And his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand 4 And Joseph found grace in his sight and he served him and he made him overseer over his house and all that he had he put into his hand 5 And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house and over all that he had that the LORD blessed the Egyptians house for Josephs sake and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house and in the field 6 And he left all that he had in Josephs hand and he knew not ought he had save the bread which he did eat and Joseph was a goodly person and well-favoured 7 ¶ And it came to pass after these things that his masters wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and she said Lie with me 8 But he refused and said unto his masters wife Behold my master wotteth not what is with me in the house and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand 9 There is none greater in this house then I neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee because thou art his wife how then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God 10 And it came to pass as she spake to Joseph day by day that he hearkned not unto her to lie by her or to be with her 11 And it came to pass about this time that Joseph went into the house to do his business and there was none of the men of the house there within 12 And she caught him by his garment saying Lie with me and he left his garment in her hand and fled and got him out 13 And it came to pass when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and was fled forth 14 That she called unto the men of her house and spake unto them saying See he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us he came in unto me to lie with me and I cried with a †Heb. great loud voice 15 And it came to pass when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried that he left his garment with me and fled and got him out 16 And she laid up his garment by her until his lord came home 17 And she spake unto him according to these words saying The Hebrew servant which thou hast brought unto us came in unto me to mock me 18 And it came to pass as I list up my voice and cried that he left his garment with me and fled out 19 And it came to pass when his master heard the words of his wife which she spake unto him saying After this manner did thy servant to me that his wrath was kindled 20 And Josephs maâ—ter took him and put him into the prison a place where the kings prisoners were bound and he was there in the prison 21 ¶ But the LORD was with Joseph and †Heb. extended kindness unto him shewed him mercy and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison 22 And the
commanded Moses CHAP. V. 1 The anclean are removed out of the camp 5 Restitution is to be made in trespasses 11 The trial of jealousie ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every * Lev. 13.3 leper and every one that hath an * Lev. 15.2 issue and whosoever is defiled by the * Lev. 21.1 dead 3 Both male and female shall ye put out without the camp shall ye put them that they defile not their camps in the midst whereof I dwell 4 And the children of Israel did so and put them out without the camp as the LORD spake unto Moses so did the children of Israel 5 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 6 Speak unto the children of Israel * Levit. 6.3 When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit to do a trespass against the LORD and that person be guilty 7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done and he shall recompense his trespass * Levit. 6.5 with the principal thereof and add unto it the fifth part thereof and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed 8 But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto set the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD even to the priest beside the ram of the atonement whereby an atonement shall be made for him 9 And every ‖ Or leave-offering offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel which they bring unto the priest shall be his 10 And every mans hallowed things shall be his whatsoever any man giveth the priest it shall be * Levit. 10.13 his 11 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 12 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them If any mans wife go aside and commit a trespass against him 13 And a man lie with her carnally and it he hid from the eyes of her husband and be kept close and she be defiled and there be no witness against her neither she be taken with the manner 14 And the spirit of jealousie come upon him and he be jealous of his wife and she be defiled or if the spirit of jealousie come upon him and he be jealous of his wife and she be not defiled 15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest and he shall bring her offering for her the tenth part of an ephah of barly-meal he shall pour no oyl upon it nor put frankincense thereon for it is an offering of jealousie an offering of memorial bringing iniquity to remembrance 16 And the priest shall bring her near and set her before the LORD 17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take and put it into the water 18 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD and uncover the womans head and put the offering of memorial in her hands which is the jealousie-offering and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse 19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath and say unto the woman If no man have lien with thee and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness ‖ Or being in the power of thy husband †Heb. under thy husband with another in stead of thy husband be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse 20 But if thou hast gone aside to another in stead of thy husband and if thou be defiled and some man hath lien with thee beside thine husband 21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing and the priest shall say unto the woman The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people when the LORD doth make thy thigh to †Heb. fall rot and thy belly to swell 22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels to make thy belly to swell and thy thigh to rot And the woman shall say Amen amen 23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book and he shall blot them out with the bitter water 24 And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter 25 Then the priest shall take the jealousie-offering out of the womans hand and shall wave the offering before the LORD and offer it upon the altar 26 And the priest shall take an handful of the offering even the memorial thereof and burn it upon the altar and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water 27 And when he hath made her to drink the water then it shall come to pass that if she be defiled and have done trespass against her husband that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter and her belly shall swell and her thigh shall rot and the woman shall be a curse among her people 28 And if the woman be not defiled but be clean then she shall be free and shall conceive seed 29 This is the law of jealousies when a wise goeth aside to another in stead of her husband and is defiled 30 Or when the spirit of jealousie cometh upon him and he be jealous over his wife and shall set the woman before the LORD and the priest shall execute upon her all this law 31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity and this woman shall bear her iniquity CHAP. VI. 1 The law of the Nazarices 22 The form of blessing the people ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them When either man or woman shall ‖ Or make themselves Nazarites separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite to separate themselves unto the LORD 3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink and shall drink no vineger of wine or vineger of strong drink neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes nor eat moist grapes or dried 4 All the days of his ‖ Or Nazariteship separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the †Heb. vine of the wine vine-tree from the kernels even to the husk 5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no * Judg. 13.5 1 Sam. 1.11 rasour come upon his head until the days be fulfilled in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall be holy and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow 6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body 7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother for his brother or for his sister when they die because the †Heb. separation consecration of his God is upon his head 8 All the days of his separation
the people went forth and brought them and made themselves booths every one upon the roof of his house and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God and in the street of the water-gate and in the street of the gate of Ephraim 17 And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths and sat under the booths for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so and there was very great gladness 18 Also day by day from the first day unto the last day he read in the book of the law of God and they kept the feast seven days and on the eighth day was †Heb. a restraint a solemn assembly according unto the manner CHAP. IX 1 A solemn fast and repentance of the people 4 The Levites make a religious confession of Gods goodness and their wickedness NOw in the twenty and fourth day of * Chap. 8.2 this moneth the children of Israel were assembled with fasling and with sackclothes and earth upon them 2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all †Heb. strange children strangers and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers 3 And they stood up in their place and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day and another fourth part they confessed and worshipped the LORD their God 4 ¶ Then stood up upon the ‖ Or seaffold stairs of the Levites Jeshua and Bani Kadmiel Shebaniah Bunni Sherebiah Bani and Chenani and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God 5 Then the Levites Jeshua and Kadmiel Bani Hashabniah Sherebiah Hodijah Shebaniah and Pethabiah said Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever and blessed be thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise 6 Thou even thou art LORD alone * Gen. 1.1 thou hast made heaven the heaven of neavens with all their host the earth and all things that are therein the seas and all that is therein and thou preservest them all and the host of heaven worshippeth thee 7 Thou art the LORD the God who didst choose * Gen. 11.31 12.1 Abram and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Caldees and gavest him the name of * Gen. 17.5 Abraham 8 And foundest his heart * Gen. 15 6. faithful before thee and madest a * Gen. 12.7 and 15.18 and 17.7 â— covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites the Hittites the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Jebusites and the Girgashites to give it I say to his seed and hast performed thy words for thou art righteous 9 * Ex. 3.7 14.10 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heardest their cry by the Red sea 10 And * Ex. 7.8 9 10 12 and 14 chap. shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh and on all his servants and on all the people of his land for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them so didst thou get thee a name as it is this day 11 * Ex. 14.21 22. And thou didst divide the sea before them so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land and their persecuters thou threwest into the deeps as a stone into the * Ex. 15.10 mighty waters 12 Moreover thou * Ex. 13 21 leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar and in the night by a pillar of fire to give them light in the way wherein they should go 13 * Ex. 19.20 20.1 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai and spakest with them from heaven and gavest them right judgements and †Heb. laws of truth true laws good statutes and commandments 14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath and commandedst them precepts statutes and laws by the hand of Moses thy servant 15 And * Ex. 15.14 15. gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger and * Ex. 17.6 Num 20.9 c. broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst and promisedst them that they should * Deu. 1.8 go in to possess the land †Heb. which thou hadst lift up thine hand to give them which thou hadst sworn to give them 16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardned their necks and hearkned not to thy commandments 17 And refused to obey neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them but hardned their necks and in their rebellion appointed * Nu. 14.4 a captain to return to their bondage but thou art †Heb. a God of pardons a God ready to pardon graciou and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and forsookest them not 18 Yea * Ex. 32.4 when they had made them a molten calf and said This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt and had wrought great provocations 19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness the * Ex. 13.22 Nu. 14.14 1 Cor. 10.1 pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way neither the pillar of fire by night to shew them light and the way wherein they should go 20 Thou gavest also thy * Nu. 11.17 good spirit to instruct them and withheldest not thy * Ex. 16.15 Jos 5.12 manna from their mouth and gavest them * Ex. 17.6 water for their thirst 21 Yea fourty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness so that they lacked nothing their * Deu. 8.4 clothes waxed not old and their feet swelled not 22 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations and didst divide them into corners so they possessed the land of * Nu. 21.21 c. Sihon and the land of the king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan 23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven and broughtest them into the land concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers that they should go in to possess it 24 So the children went in and possessed the land and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land the Canaanites and gavest them into their hands with their kings and the people of the land that they might do with them †Heb. according to their will as they would 25 And they took strong cities and a fat land and possessed houses full of all goods ‖ Or â—iâ—â—â—rns wells digged vineyards and olive-yards and †Heb. tree of food fruit-trees in abundance so they did eat and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in thy great goodness 26 Nevertheless they were disobedient rebelled against thee and cast thy law behinde their backs and slew thy * 1 Kin. 19.10 prophets with testified against them to turn them to thee they wrought great provocations
servant O LORD according unto thy word 66 Teach me good judgement and knowledge for I have beleeved thy commandments 67 Before I was afflicted I went astray but now have I kept thy word 68 Thou art good and doest good teach me thy statutes 69 The proud have forged a he against me but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart 70 Their heart is as fat as grease but I delight in thy law 71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes 72 * Ps 19.10 Pr. 8.11 The law of thy mouth is better unto me then thousands of gold and silver JOD 73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me give me understanding that I may learn thy commandments 74 They that fear thee will be glad when they see me because I have hoped in thy word 75 I know O LORD that thy judgements are †Heb. righteousness right and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me 76 Let I pray thee thy merciful kindness be †Heb. to comfort me for my comfort according to thy word unto thy servant 77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me that I may live for thy law is my delight 78 Let the proud be ashamed for they dealt perversly with me without a cause but I will meditate in thy precepts 79 Let those that fear thee turn unto me and those that have known thy testimonies 80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes that I be not ashamed CAPH 81 My soul fainteth for thy salvation but I hope in thy word 82 Mine eyes fail for thy word saying When wilt thou comfort me 83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke yet do I not forget thy statutes 84 How many are the days of thy servant when wilt thou execute judgement on them that persecute me 85 The proud have digged pits for me which are not after thy law 86 All thy commandments are †Heb. faithfulness faithful they persecute me wrongfully help thou me 87 They had almost consumed me upon earth but I forsook not thy precepts 88 Quicken me after thy loving kindness so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth LAMED 89 For ever O LORD thy word is settled in heaven 90 Thy faithfulness is †Heb. to generation and generation unto all generations thou hast established the earth and it †Heb. standeth abideth 91 They continue this day according to thine ordinances for all are thy servants 92 Unless thy law had been my delights I should then have perished in mine affliction 93 I will never forget thy precepts for with them thou hast quickned me 94 I am thine save me for I have sought thy precepts 95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me but I will consider thy testimonies 96 I have seen an end of all perfection but thy commandment is exceeding broad MEM. 97 O how love I thy law it is my meditation all the day 98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser then mine enemies for †Heb. it is ever with me they are ever with me 99 I have more understanding then all my teachers for thy testimonies are my meditation 100 I understand more then the ancients because I keep thy precepts 101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way that I might keep thy word 102 I have not departed from thy judgements for thou hast taught me 103 * Ps 19.10 How sweet are thy words unto my †Heb. palate taste yea sweeter then honey to my mouth 104 Through thy precepts I get understanding therefore I hate every false way NUN 105 Thy word is a ‖ Or candle lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path 106 I have sworn and I will perform it that I will keep thy righteous judgements 107 I am afflicted very much quicken me O LORD according unto thy word 108 Accept I beseech thee the free-will-offerings of my mouth O LORD and teach me thy judgements 109 My soul is continually in my hand yet do I not forget thy law 110 The wicked have laid a snare for me yet I erred not from thy precepts 111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever for they are the rejoycing of my heart 112 I have inclined mine heart †Heb. to do to perform thy statutes alway even unto the end SAMECH 113 I hate vain thoughts but thy law do I love 114 Thou art my hiding-place and my shield I hope in thy word 115 * Mat. 7.23 Depart from me ye evil doers for I will keep the commandments of my God 116 Uphold me according unto thy word that I may live and let me not be ashamed of my hope 117 Hold thou me up and I shall be safe and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually 118 Thou hast troden down all them that err from thy statutes for their deceit is falshood 119 Thou †Heb. causest to cease puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross therefore I love thy testimonies 120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee and I am afraid of thy judgements AIN 121 I have done judgement and justice leave me not to mine oppressours 122 Be surety for thy servant for good let not the proud oppress me 123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation and for the word of thy righteousness 124 Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy and teach me thy statutes 125 I am thy servant give me understanding that I may know thy testimonies 126 It is time for thee LORD to work for they have made void thy law 127 * Ps 19.10 Pr. 8.11 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold yea above fine gold 128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right and I hate every false way PE. 129 Thy testimonies are wonderful therefore doth my soul keep them 130 The entrance of thy words giveth light it giveth understanding unto the simple 131 I opened my mouth and panted for I longed for thy commandments 132 Look thou upon me and be merciful unto me †Heb. according to the custom towards those c. as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name 133 Order my steps in thy word and let not any iniquity have dominion over me 134 Deliver me from the oppression of man so will I keep thy precepts 135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant and teach me thy statutes 136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes because they keep not thy law TSANDDI 137 Righteous art thou O LORD and upright are thy judgements 138 Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are †Heb. righteousness righteous and very †Heb. faithfulness faithful 139 * Ps 69.9 Joh. 2.17 My zeal hath †Heb. cut me off consumed me because mine enemies have forgotten thy words 140 Thy word is very †Heb. tried or refined pure therefore thy servant
off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done saith the LORD 38 ¶ Behold the days come saith the LORD that the city shall be built to the LORD from the towre of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner 39 And the measuring-line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb and shall compass about to Goath 40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron unto the corner of the hors-gate towards the east shall be holy unto the LORD it shall not be plucked up nor thrown down any more for ever CHAP. XXXII 1 Jeremiah being imprisoned by Zedekiah for his prophesie 6 buyeth Hanameels field 13 Baruch must preserve the evidences as tokens of the peoples return 16 Jeremiah in his prayer complaineth to God 26 God confirmeth the captivity for their sins 36 and promiseth a gracious return THe word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar 2 For then the king of Babylons army besieged Jerusalem and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison which was in the king of Judahs house 3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up saying Wherefore dost thou prophesie and say Thus saith the LORD * Ch. 34.2 Behold I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon he shall take it 4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Caldeans but shall surely * Chap. 34.3 be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon and shall speak with him mouth to mouth and his eyes shall behold his eyes 5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon and there shall he be until I visit him saith the LORD though ye fight with the Caldeans ye shall not prosper 6 ¶ And Jeremiah said The word of the LORD came unto me saying 7 Behold Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee saying Buy thee my field that is in Anathoâ—h for the * Levit. 25.24 Ruth 4.4 right of redemption is thine to buy it 8 So Hanameel mine uncles son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD and said unto me Buy my field I pray thee that is in Anathoth which is in the countrey of Benjamin for the right of inheritance is thine and the redemption is thine buy it for thy self then I knew that this was the word of the LORD 9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncles son that was in Anathoth and weighed him the money even ‖ Or seven shekels and ten pieces of silver seventeen shekels of silver 10 And I †Heb. wrote in the book subscribed the evidence and sealed it and took witnesses and weighed him the money in the balances 11 So I took the evidence of the purchase both that which was sealed according to the law and custom and that which was open 12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah the son of Maaseiah in the sight of Hanameel mine uncles son and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison 13 ¶ And I charged Baruch before them saying 14 Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Take these evidences this evidence of the purchase both which is sealed and this evidence which is open and put them in an earthen vessel that they may continue many days 15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land 16 ¶ Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah I prayed unto the LORD saying 17 Ah Lord GOD behold thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm and there is nothing ‖ Or hid from thee too hard for thee 18 Thou shewest * Exod. 34.7 Deut. 5.10 loving kindness unto thousands and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them the great the mighty God the LORD of hosts is his name 19 Great in counsel and mighty in †Heb. doing work for thine * Job 34.21 Prov. 5.21 Chap. 16.17 eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men to give every one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings 20 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt even unto this day and in Israel and amongst other men and hast made thee a name as at this day 21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel * Exod. 6.6 2 Sam. 7.23 1 Chron. 17.21 out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders and with a strong hand and with a stretched out arm and with great terrour 22 And hast given them this land which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey 23 And they came in and possessed it but they obeyed not thy voice neither walked in thy law they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them 24 Behold the ‖ Or engines of shot mounts they are come unto the city to take it and the city is given into the hand of the Caldeans that fight against it because of the sword and of the famine and of the pestilence and what thou hast spoken is come to pass and behold thou seest it 25 And thou hast said unto me O Lord GOD Buy thee the field for money and take witnesses for the city is given into the hand of the Caldeans 26 ¶ Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah saying 27 Behold I am the LORD the * Numb 16.22 God of all flesh Is there any thing too hard for me 28 Therefore thus saith the LORD Behold I will give this city into the hand of the Caldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and he shall take it 29 And the Caldeans that fight against this city shall come and set fire on this city and burn it with the houses * Chap. 19.13 upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal and poured out drink-offerings unto other gods to provoke me to anger 30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have onely done evil before me from their youth for the children of Israel have onely provoked me to anger with the work of their hands saith the LORD 31 For this city hath been to me as †Heb. for my anger a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day that I should remove it from before my face 32
Saddue the son of Achitob the son of Amarias the son of ‖ Oâ—ias Ezias the son of ‖ Meraioth Memeroth the son of Zaraias the son of ‖ Vzzi Some copies want these three names Savias the son of Boccas the son of Abisum the son of Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron †Heb. was first Ezra 7.1 the chief priest 3 This Esdras went up from Babylon as a scribe being very ready in the law of Moses that was given by the God of Israel 4 And the king did him honour for he found grace in his sight in all his requests 5 There went up with him also certain of the children of Israel of the priests of the Levites of the holy singers porters and ‖ Or Nethinims ministers of the temple unto Jerusalem 6 In †See Ezra 7.7 8 9. the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes in the fifth moneth this was the kings seventh year for they went from Babylon in the first day of the first moneth and came to Jerusalem according to the ‖ Or saâ—â—sâ— prosperous journey which the Lord gave them 7 For Esdras had very great skill so that he omitted nothing of the law and commandments of the Lord but taught all Israel the ordinances and judgements 8 Now the copy of the ‖ Or â—â—râ—e commission which was written from Artaxerxes the king and came to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord is this that followeth 9 King Artaxerxes unto Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord sendeth greeting 10 Having determined to deal graciously I have given order that such of the nation of the Jews and of the priests and Levites being within our realm as are willing and desirous should go with thee unto Jerusalem 11 As many therefore as have a minde thereunto let them depart with thee as it hath seemed good both to me and my seven friends the counsellours 12 That they may look unto the affairs of Judea and Jerusalem agreeably to that which is in the law of the Lord 13 And carry the gifts unto the Lord of Israel to Jerusalem which I and my friends have vowed and all the gold and silver that in the countrey of Babylon can be ‖ Or gâ—t found to the Lord in Jerusalem 14 With that also which is given of the people for the temple of the Lord their God at Jerusalem and that silver and gold may be collected for bullocks rams and lambs and things thereunto appertaining 15 To the end that they may offer sacrifices unto the Lord upon the altar of the Lord their God which is in Jerusalem 16 And whatsoever thou and thy brethren will do ‖ Or with the rest of Ezra 7.18 with the silver and gold that do according to the will of thy God 17 And the holy vessels of the Lord which are given thee for the use of the temple of thy God which is in Jerusalem thou shalt set before thy God in Jerusalem 18 And whatsoever thing else thou shalt remember for the use of the temple of thy God thou shalt give it out of the kings treasury 19 And I king Artaxerxes have also commanded the keepers of the treasures in Syria and Phenice that whatsoever Esdras the priest and the reader of the law of the most high God shall send for they should give it him with speed 20 To the sum of an hundred talents of silver likewise also of wheat even to an hundred ‖ Or measures or salt Ezra 7.22 cors and an hundred pieces of wine and other things in abundance 21 Let all things be performed after the law of God diligently unto the most high God that wrath come not upon the kingdom of the king and his sons 22 I command you also that ye require no tax nor any other imposition of any of the priests or Levites or holy singers or porters or ministers of the temple or of any that have doings in this temple and that no man have authority to impose any thing upon them 23 And thou Esdras according to the wisdom of God ordain judges and justices that they may judge in all Syria and Phenice †Heb. of those that know Ezra 7.25 all those that know the law of thy God and those that know it not thou shalt teach 24 And * Ezra 7.25 whosoever shall transgress the law of thy God and of the king shall be punished diligently whether it be by death or other punishment by penalty of money or by imprisonment 25 ¶ Then said Esdras the scribe Blessed be the onely Lord God of my fathers who hath put these things into the heart of the king to glorify his house that is in Jerusalem 26 And hath honoured the in the sight of the king and his counsellours and all his friends and nobles 27 Therefore was I encouraged by the help of the Lord my God and gathered together men of Israel to go up with me 28 And these are the chief according to their families and several dignities that went up with me from Babylon in the reign of king Artaxerxes 29 Of the sons of Phinees Gerson of the sons of Ithamar ‖ Or. Daniel Gamael of the sons of David ‖ Or Chattus Lettus * Ezra 8 â— of the sons of Shecaniah of the sons of Parosh the son of Sechenias 30 Of the sons of Pharez Zacharias and with him were counted an hundred and fifty men 31 Of the sons of Pahath Moab Eliaonias the son of ‖ Zerachaiah Zaraias and with him two hundred men 32 ‖ Or of the sons of Shechaniah the son of Jahaziel Of the sons of Zathoe Sechenias the son of Jezelus and with him three hundred men of the sons of Adin Obeth the son of Jonathan and with him †Heb. fifty men two hundred and fifty men 33 Of the sons of Elam Josias son of ‖ Or Athaliah Gotholias and with him seventy men 34 Of the sons of Saphatias ‖ Or Zebadiah Zaraias son of Michael and with him ‖ Or fourscore men threescore and ten men 35 Of the sons of Joab ‖ Or Obadiah Abadias son of ‖ Or Jebiel Jezelus and with him two hundred and ‖ Or eighteen men twelve men 36 ‖ Or of the sons of Shelomith the son of Josiphiah Of the sons of Banid Assalimeth son of Josaphias and with him an hundred and threescore men 37 Of the sons of Babi Zacharias son of Bebai and with him twenty and eight men 38 Of the sons of ‖ Or. Azead Astath Johannes son of ‖ Or Catan Acatan and with him an hundred and ten men 39 Of the sons of Adonicam the last and these are the names of them Eliphalet Jeuel and ‖ Or Shemaia Samaias and with them ‖ Or sixty men seventy men 40 Of the sons of †Heb. â—igval Bago Uthi the son of
these days I did appear unto you but I did neither eat nor drink but you did see a vision 20 Now therefore give God thanks for I go up to him that sent me but write all things which are done in a book 21 And when they arose they saw him no more 22 Then they confessed the great and wonderful works of God and how the angel of the Lord had appeared unto them CHAP. XIII The thanksgiving unto God which Tobit wrote THen Tobit wrote a prayer of rejoycing and said Blessed be God that liveth for ever and blessed be his kingdom 2 * Deut. 32.39 1 Sam. 2.6 Wisd 16.13 For he doth scourge and hath mercy he leadeth down to hell and bringeth up again neither is there any that can avoid his hand 3 Confess him before the Gentiles ye children of Israel for he hath scattered us among them 4 There declare his greatness and extol him before all the living for he is our Lord and he is the God our father for ever 5 And he will scourge us for our iniquities and will have mercy again and will gather us out of all nations among whom he hath scattered us 6 If you turn to him with your whole heart and with your whole minde and deal uprightly before him then will he turn unto you and will not hide his face from you Therefore see what he will do with you and confess him with your whole mouth and praise the Lord of might and extol the everlasting King In the land of my captivity do I praise him and declare his might and majesty to a sinful ration O ye sinners turn and do justice before him who can tell if he will accept you and have mercy on you 7 I will extol my God and my soul shall praise the king of heaven and shall rejoyce in his greatness 8 Let all men speak and let all praise him for his righteousness 9 O Jerusalem the holy city ‖ Or he will lay a scourge upon the works of thy children he will scourge thee for thy childrens works and will have mercy again on the sons of the righteous 10 Give praise to the Lord for he is good and praise the everlasting King that his tabernacle may be builded in thee again with joy and ‖ Or to make let him make joyful there in thee those that are captives and love in thee for ever those that are miserable 11 Many nations shall come from far to the name of the Lord God with gifts in their hands even gifts to the King of heaven all generations shall praise thee with great joy 12 Cursed are all they which hate thee and blessed shall all be which love thee for ever 13 Rejoâ—ce and be glad for the children of the just for they shall be gathered together and shall bless the Lord of the just 14 O blessed are they which love thee for they shall rejoyce in thy ‖ Or prosperity peace blessed are they which have been sorrowful for all thy scourges for they shall rejoyce for thee when they have seen all thy glory and shall be glad for ever 15 Let my soul bless God the great King 16 For Jerusalem shall be built up with sapphires and emeralds and precious stone thy walls and towers and battlements with pure gold 17 And the streets of Jerusalem shall be paved with beryl and carbuncle and stones of Ophir 18 And all her streets shall say Alleluja and they shall praise him saying Blessed be God which hath extolled it for ever CHAP. XIV 3 Tobit giveth instructions to his son 8 specially to leave Nineve 11 He and his wise die and are buried 12 Tobias removeth to Ecbatane 14 and there died after he had heard of the destruction of Nineve SO Tobit made an end of praising God 2 And he was eight and fifty years old when he lost his sight which was restored to him after eight years and he gave alms and he ‖ Or did more and more fâ—â—r increased in the fear of the Lord God and praised him 3 And when he was very aged he called his son and the six sons of his son and said to him My son take thy children for behold I am aged and am ready to depart out of this life 4 Go into Media my son for I surely beleeve those things which Jonas the prophet spake of Nineve that it shall be overthrown and that for a time peace shall rather be in Media and that our brethren shall lie scattered in the earth from that good land and Jerusalem shall be desolate and the house of God in it shall be burned and shall be desolate for a time 5 * Ezc. 3. â— 6.14 And that again God will have mercy on them and bring them again into the sand where they shall build a temple but not like to the first until the time of that age be fulfilled and afterward they shall return from all places of their captivity and build up Jerusalem gloriously and the house of God shall be built in it ‖ For ever is not in the Romane copy for ever with a glorious building as the prophets have spoken thereof 6 And all nations shall turn and fear the Lord God truly and shall bury their idols 7 So shall all nations praise the Lord and his people shall confess God and the Lord shall exalt his people and all those which love the Lord God in truth and justice shall rejoyce shewing mercy to our brethren 8 And now my son depart out of Nineve because that those things which the prophet Jonas spake shall surely come to pass 9 But keep thou the law and the commandments and shew thy self merciful and just that it may go well with thee 10 And bury me decently and thy mother with me but tarry no longer at Nineve Remember my son how Aman handled Achiacharuâ— that brought him up how out of light he brought him into darkness and how he rewarded him again yet Achiacharus was ‖ Or preserved saved but the other had his reward for he went down into darkness ‖ Jutus readeth Nitzha Manasses gave alms and escaped the snares of death ‖ Rom. which he had set which they had set for him but Aman fell into the snare and perished 11 Wherefore now my son consider what alms doeth and how righteousness doth deliver When he had said these things he gave up the Ghost in the bed being an hundred and eight and fifty years old and ‖ Or. they he buried him honourably 12 And when Anna his mother was dead he buried her with his father but Tobias departed with his wife and children to Ecbatane to Raguel his father in law 13 Where he became old with honour and he buried his father and mother in law honourably and he ‖ Or. possissed inherited their substance and his father Tobits 14 And he died at Ecbatane in Media being an hundred and seven and twenty years
a very fair woman and one that feared the Lord. 3 Her parents also were righteous and taught their daughter according to the law of Moses 4 Now Joacim was a great rich man and had a fair garden joyning unto his house and to him resorted the Jews because he was more honourable then all others 5 The same year were appointed two of the ancients of the people to be judges such as the Lord spake of that wickedness came from Babylon from ancient judges who seemed to govern the people 6 These kept much at Joacims house and all that had any suits in law came unto them 7 Now when the people departed away at noon Susanna went into her husbands garden to walk 8 And the two elders saw her going in every day and walking so that their lust was inflamed toward her 9 And they perverted their own minde and turned away their eyes that they might not look unto heaven nor remember just judgements 10 And albeit they both were wounded with her love yet durst not one shew another his grief 11 For they were ashamed to declare their lust that they desired to have to do with her 12 Yet they watched diligently from day to day to see her 13 And the one said to the other Let us now go home for it is dinner-time 14 So when they were gone out they parted the one from the other and turning back again they came to the same place and after they had asked one another the cause they acknowledged their lust then appointed they a time both together when they might finde her alone 15 And it fell out as they watched a fit time she went in †Gr. as yesterday and the day before as before with two maids onely and she was desirous to wash her self in the garden for it was hot 16 And there was no body there save the two elders that had hid themselves and watched her 17 Then she said to her maids Bring me oyl and washing-balls and shut the garden doors that I may wash me 18 And they did as she bade them and shut the garden-doors and went out themselves at ‖ Or side-doors privy doors to fetch the things that she had commanded them but they saw not the elders because they were hid 19 Now when the maids were gone forth the two elders rose up and ran unto her saying 20 Behold the garden-doors are shut that no man can see us and we are in love with thee therefore consent unto us and lie with us 21 If thou wilt not we will bear witness against thee that a young man was with thee and therefore thou didst send away thy maids from thee 22 Then Susanna sighed and said I am straighted on every side for if I do this thing it is death unto me and if I do it not I cannot escape your hands 23 It is better for me to fall into your hands and not to do it then to sin in the sight of the Lord. 24 With that Susanna cried with a loud voice and the two elders cried out against her 25 Then ran the one and opened the garden-door 26 So when the servants of the house heard the cry in the garden they rushed in at a privy door to see what was done unto her 27 But when the elders had declared their matter the servants were greatly ashamed for there was never such a report made of Susanna 28 And it came to pass the next day when the people were assembled to her husband Joacim the two elders came also full of mischievous imagination against Susanna to put her to death 29 And said before the people Send for Susanna the daughter of Chelcias Joacims wife and so they sent 30 So she came with her father and mother her children and all her kindred 31 Now Susanna was a very delicate woman and beauteous to behold 32 And these wicked men commanded to uncover her face for she was covered that they might be filled with her beauty 33 Therefore her friends and all that saw her wept 34 Then the two elders stood up in the mids of the people and said their hands upon her head 35 And she weeping looked up towards heaven for her heart trusted in the Lord. 36 And the elders said As we walked in the garden alone this woman came in with two maids and shut the garden doors and sent the maids away 37 Then a young man who there was hid came unto her and lay with her 38 Then we that stood in a corner of the garden seeing this wickedness ran unto them 39 And when we saw them together the man we could not hold for he was stronger then we and opened the door and leaped out 40 But having taken this woman we asked who the young man was but she would not tell us these things do we testifie 41 Then the assembly beleeve them as those that were the elders and judges of the people so they condemned her to death 42 Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice and said O everlasting God that knowest the secrets and knowest all things before they be 43 Thou knowest that they have born false witness against me and behold I must die whereas I never did such things as these men have maliciously invented against me 44 And the Lord heard her voice 45 Therefore when she was led to be put to death the Lord raised up the holy spirit of a young youth whose name was Daniel 46 Who cried with a loud voice I am clear from the bloud of this woman 47 Then all the people turned them towards him and said What mean those words that thou hast spoken 48 So he standing in the midst of them said Are ye such fools ye sons of Israel that without examination or knowledge of the truth ye have condemned a daughter of Israel 49 Return again to the place of judgement for they have born false witness against her 50 Wherefore all the people turned again in haste and the elders said unto him Come sit down among us and shew it us seeing God hath given thee the honour of an elder 51 Then said Daniel unto them Put these two aside one far from another and I will examine them 52 So when they were put asunder one from another he called one of them and said unto him O thou that art waxen old in wickedness now thy sins which thou hast committed aforetime are come to light 53 For thou hast pronounced false judgement and hast condemned the innocent and hast let the guilty go free albeit the Lord saith * Exod. 23.7 The innocent and righteous shalt thou not slay 54 Now then if thou hast seen her tell me Under what tree sawest thou them companying together Who answered Under a †Gr. lentiâ—k-trâ—â— mastick-tree 55 And Daniel said Very well thou hast lied against thine own head for even now the angel of God hath received the sentence of God to cut thee in two 56 So
hath not had a part in her kingdom and gotten of her spoils 11 All her ornaments are taken away of a fret-woman she is become a bond-slave 12 And behold our ‖ Or 〈◊〉 thing sanctuary even our beauty and our glory is laid waste and the Gentiles have profaned it 13 To what end therefore shall we live any longer 14 Then Mattathias and his sons rent their clothes and put on sackcloth and mourned very sore 15 In the mean while the kings officers such as compelled the people to revolt came into the city Modin to make them sacrifice 16 And when many of Israel came unto them Mattathias also and his sons came together 17 Then answered the kings officers and said to Mattathias on this wise Thou art a ruler and an honourable and great man in this city and strengthned with sons and brethren 18 Now therefore come thou first and fulfil the kings commandment like as all the heathen have done yea and the men of Juda also and such as remain at Jerusalem so shalt thou and thy house be in the number of the kings friends and thou and thy children shall be honoured with silver and gold and many rewards 19 Then Mattathias answered and spake with a loud voice Though all the nations that are under the kings dominion obey him and fall away every one from the religion of their fathers and give consent to his commandments 20 Yet will I and my sons and my brethren walk in the covenant of our fathers 21 God forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances 22 We will not hearken to the kings words to go from our religion either on the right hand or the left 23 Now when he had left speaking these words there came one of the Jews in the light of all to sacrifice on the altar which was at Modin according to the kings commandment 24 Which thing when Mattathias saw he was inflamed with zeal and his reins trembled neither could he forbear to shew his anger according to judgement wherefore he ran and slew him upon the altar 25 Also the kings commissioner who compelled men to sacrifice he killed at that time and the altar he pulled down 26 Thus dealt he zealously for the law of God like as * Numb 25.7 Phinees did unto Zambri the son of Salom. 27 And Mattathias cried throughout the city with a loud voice saying Whosoever is Zealous of the law and maintaineth the covenant let him follow me 28 So he and his sons fled into the mountains and left all that ever they had in the city 29 Then many that sought after justice and judgement went down into the wilderness to †Gr. sit or abide dwell there 30 Both they and their children and their wives and their cattel because †Gr. evils were multiplied upon them afflictions increased sore upon them 31 Now when it was told the kings servants and the host that was at Jerusalem in the city of David that certain men who had broken the kings commandment were gone down into the secret places in the wilderness 32 They pursued after them a great number and having overtaken them they camped against them and made war against them on the sabbath-day 33 And they said unto them Let that which you have done hitherto suffice come forth and do according to the commandment of the king and you shall live 34 But they said We will not come forth neither will we do the kings commandment to profane the sabbath-day 35 So then they gave ‖ Of the Jews them the battel with all speed 36 Howbeit they answered them not neither cast they a stone at them nor stopped the places where they lay hid 37 But said Let us die all in our †Gr. simplicity innocency heaven and earth shall testifie for us that you put us to death wrongfully 38 So they rose up against them in battel on the sabbath and they slew them with their wives and children and their cattel to the number of a thousand †Gr. souls of men people 39 Now when Mattathias and his friends understood hereof they mourned for them right sore 40 And one of them said to another If we all do as our brethren have done and fight not for our lives and laws against the heathen they will now quickly root us out of the earth 41 At that time therefore they decreed saying Whosoever shall come to make battel with us on the sabbath-day we will fight against him neither will we die all as our brethren that were murdered in the secret places 42 Then came there unto him a company of Assideans who were mighty men of Israel even all such as were voluntarily devoted unto the law 43 Also all they that fled for persecution joyned themselves unto them and were a stay unto them 44 So they joyned their forces and smote sinful men in their anger and wicked men in their wrath but the rest fled to the heathen for succour 45 Then Mattathias and his friends went round about and pulled down the altars 46 And what children soever they found within the coast of Israel uncircumcised those they circumcised ‖ Or by force valiantly 47 They pursued also after the proud men and the work prospered in their hand 48 So they recovered the law out of the hand of the Gentiles and out of the hand of kings neither †Gr. gaâ—â— they the born to the finner suffered they the sinner to triumph 49 Now when the time drew near that Mattathias should die he said unto his sons Now hath pride and rebuke gotten strength and the time of destruction and the wrath of indignation 50 Now therefore my sons be ye zealous for the law and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers 51 Call to remembrance what acts our fathers did in their †Gr. generations time so shall ye receive great honour and an everlasting name 52 * Gen 22 9 10. Rom. 4.3 Was not Abraham found faithful in tentation and it was imputed unto him for righteousness 53 * Gr. 41 40. Joseph in the time of his distress kept the commandment and was made lord of Egypt 54 * Numb 25.13 Ecclus 45.23 24. Phinees our father in being zealous and fervent obtained the covenant of an everlasting priesthood 55 * Josh 1.2 Jesus for fulfilling the word was made a judge in Israel 56 * Numb 14.6 7. Josh 14.13 Caleb for bearing witness before the congregation received the heritage of the land 57 * 2 Sam. 2.4 David for being merciful possessed the throne of an everlasting kingdom 58 * 2 King 2.11 Elias for being zealous and fervent for the law was taken up into heaven 59 * Dan. 3.16 17 18 26. Ananias Azarias and Misael by beleeving were saved out of the flame 60 * Dan. 6.22 Daniel for his innocency was delivered from the mouth of lionâ— 61 And thus consider
killeth those that sought for him THen came up John from Gazara and told Simon his father what Cendebeus had done 2 Wherefore Simon called his two eldest sons Judas and John said unto them I my brethren and my fathers house have ever from our youth unto this day fought against the enemies of Israel things have prospered so well in our hands that we have delivered Israel oftentimes 3 But now I am old and ye by Gods mercy are of a sufficient age be ye in stead of me and my brother and go and fight for our nation and the help from heaven be with you 4 So he chose out of the countrey twenty thousand men of war with horsmen who went out against Cendebeus rested that night at Modin 5 And when as they rose in the morning and went into the plain behold a mighty great host both of footmen and hors-men came against them howbeit there was a water-brook betwixt them 6 So he and his people pitched over against them and when he saw that the people were afraid to go over the water-brook he went first over himself and then the men seeing him passed through after him 7 That done he divided his men and set the hors-men in the midst of the footmen for the enemies hors-men were very many 8 Then sounded they with the holy trumpets whereupon Cendebeus and his host were put to flight so that many of them were slain and the remnant gat them to the strong hold 9 At that time was Judas Johns brother wounded but John still followed after them until he came to Cedron which Cendebeus had built 10 ‖ Or Which when be bad set on fire they fled unto the towres in the fields of Azotus and there were slain c. So they fled even unto the towres in the fields of Azotus wherefore he burnt it with fire so that there were slain of them about two thousand men Afterward he returned into the land of Judea in peace 11 Moreover in the plain of Jericho was Ptolemeus the son of Abubus made captain and he had abundance of silver and gold 12 For he was the high priests son in law 13 Wherefore his heart being lifted up he thought to get the countrey to himself and thereupon consulted deceitfully against Simon and his sons to destroy them 14 Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the countrey and taking care for the good ordering of them at which time he came down himself to Jericho with his sons Mattathias and Judas in the hundred threescore and seventh year in the eleventh moneth called Sabat 15 Where the son of Abubus receiving them deceitfully into a little hold called Ducus which he had built made them a great banquet howbeit he had hid men there 16 So when Simon and his sons had drunk largely Ptolemee and his men rose up and took their weapons and came upon Simon into the banqueting-place and slew him and his two sons and certain of his servants 17 In which doing he committed a great treachery and recompensed evil for good 18 Then Ptolemee wrote these things and sent to the king that he should send him an host to aid him and he would deliver him the countrey and cities 19 He sent others also to Gazara to kill John and unto the †Gr. captains of thousands tribunes he sent letters to come unto him that he might give them silver and gold and rewards 20 And others he sent to take Jerusalem and the mountain of the temple 21 Now one had run afore to Gazara and told John that his father brethren were slain quoth he Ptolemee hath sent to slay thee also 22 Hereof when he heard he was sore astonished So he laid hands on them that were come to destroy him and slew them for he knew that they sought to make him away 23 As concerning the rest of the acts of John and his wars and worthy deeds which he did and the building of the walls which he made and his doings 24 Behold these are written in the Chronicles of his priesthood from the time he was made high priest after his father ¶ The second Book of MACCABEES CHAP. I. 1 A letter of the Jews from Jerusalem to them of Egypt to thank God for the death of Antiochus 19 Of the fire that was bidden in the pit 24 The trayer of Neemias THe brethren the Jews that be at Jerusalem and in the land of Judea wish unto the brethren the Jews that are throughout Egypt health and peace 2 God be gracious unto you and remember his covenant that he made with Abraham Isaac and Jacob his faithful servants 3 And give you all an heart to serve him and to do his will with a good courage and a willing minde 4 And open your hearts in his law and commandments and send you peace 5 And hear your prayers and he at one with you and never forsake you in time of trouble 6 And now we be here praying for you 7 What time as Demetrius reigned in the hundred threescore and ninth year we the Jews wrote unto you in the extremity of trouble that came upon us in those years from the time that Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and kingdom 8 And burnt the porch and shed innocent bloud then we prayed unto the Lord and were heard we offered also sacrifices and fine flour and lighted the lamps and set forth the loaves 9 And now see that ye keep the feast of * Lev. 23. â—â— tabernacles in the moneth Casleu 10 In the hundred fourscore and eighth year the people that were at Jerusalem and in Judea and the council and Judas sent greeting and health unto Aristobulus king Ptolemeus master who was of the stock of the anointed priests and to the Jews that were in Egypt 11 Insomuch as God hath delivered us from great perils we thank him highly as having been in battel against a king 12 For he cast them out that fought within the holy city 13 For when the leader was come into Persia and the army with him that seemed invincible they were slain in the temple of Nanea by the deceit of Naneas priests 14 For Antiochus as though he would marry her came into the place and his friends that were with him to receive money in name of a dowry 15 Which when the priests of Nanea had set forth and he was entred with a small company into the compass of the temple they shut the temple as soon as Antiochus was come in 16 And opening a privie door of the roof they threw stones like thunderbolts and stroke down the captain hewed them in pieces smote off their heads and cast them to those that were without 17 Blessed be our God in all things who hath delivered up the ungodly 18 Therefore whereas we are now purposed to keep the purification of the temple upon the five and twentieth day of the moneth * Lev.
given part of the spoils to the ‖ Or loud with â—utures maimed and the widows and orphans the residue they divided among themselves and their servants 29 When this was done and they had made a common supplication they besought the merciful Lord to be reconciled with his servants for ever 30 Moreover of those that were with Timotheus and Bacchides who fought against them they slew above twenty thousand and very easily got high and strong holds and divided amongst themselves many spoils more and made the ‖ Or 〈◊〉 maimed orphans widows yea and the aged also equal in spoils with themselves 31 And when they had gathered their armour together they laid them up all carefully in convenient places and the remnant of the spoils they brought to Jerusalem 32 They slew also Philarches that wicked person who was with Timotheus and had annoyed the Jews many ways 33 Furthermore at such time as they kept the feast for the victory in their countrey they burnt Callisthenes that had set fire upon the holy gates who was fled into a little house and so he received a reward meet for his wickedness 34 As for that most ungracious Nicanor who had brought a thousand merchants to buy the Jews 35 He was through the help of the Lord brought down by them of whom he made least account and putting off his glorious apparel and discharging his company he came like a fugitive servant through the mid-land unto Antioch having very great dishonour for that his host was destroyed 36 Thus he that took upon him to make good to the Romanes their tribute by means of the captives in Jerusalem told abroad that the Jews had God to fight for them and therefore they could not be hurt because they followed the laws that he gave them CHAP. IX 1 Antiochus is chased from Persepolis 5 He is stricken with a sore disâ—ase 14 and promiseth to become a Jew 28 He dieth miserably ABout that time came Antiochus ‖ Or â—â—â—derly with dishonour out of the countrey of Persia 2 For he had entred the city called Persepolis and went about to rob the temple and to hold the city whereupon the multitude running to defend themselves with their weapons put them to flight and so it hapned that Antiochus being put to flight of the inhabitants returned with shame 3 Now when he came to Echatana news was brought him what had hapned unto Nicanor and Timotheus 4 Then swelling with anger he thought to avenge upon the Jews the disgrace done unto him by those that made him flee Therefore commanded he his chariot-man to drive without ceasing and to dispatch the journey the judgement of God now following him For he had spoken proudly in this sort That he would come to Jerusalem and make it a common burying-place of the Jews 5 But the Lord almighty the God of Israel smote him with an incurable and invisible plague for assoon as he had spoken these words a pain of the bowels that was remediless came upon him and sore torments of the inner parts 6 And that most justly for he had tormented other mens bowels with many and strange torments 7 Howbeit he nothing at all ceased from his bragging but still was filled with pride breathing out fire in his rage against the Jews and commanding to haste the journey but it came to pass that he fell down from his chariot carried violently so that having a sore fall all the members of his body were much pained 8 And thus he that a little afore thought he might command the waves of the sea so proud was he beyond the condition of man and weigh the high mountains in a balance was now cast on the ground and carried in an hors-litter shewing forth unto all the manifest power of God 9 So that the worms rose up out of the body of this wicked man and whiles he lived in sorrow and pain his flesh fell away and the filthiness of his smell was noisome to all his army 10 And the man that thought a little afore he could reach to the stars of heaven no man could endure to carry for his intolerable stink 11 Here therefore being plagued he began to leave off his great pride and to come to the knowledge of himself by the scourge of God his pain increasing every moment 12 And when he himself could not abide his own smell he said these words It is meet to be subject unto God and that a man that is mortal should not proudly think of himself as if he were God 13 This wicked person vowed also unto the Lord who now no more would have mercy upon him saying thus 14 That the holy city to the which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground and to make it a common burying-place he would set at liberty 15 And as touching the Jews whom he had judged not worthy to be so much as buried but to be cast out with their children to be devoured of the fowls and wilde beasts he would make them all equals to the citizens of ‖ Or Antioch Athens 16 And the holy temple which before he had spoiled he would garnish with goodly gifts and restore all the holy vessels with many more and out of his own revenue defray the charges belonging to the sacrifices 17 Yea and that also he would become a Jew himself and go through all the world that was inhabited and declare the power of God 18 But for all this his pains would not cease for the just judgement of God was come upon him therefore dispairing of his health he wrote unto the Jews the letters underwritten containing the form of a supplication after this manner 19 Antiochus king and governour to the good Jews his citizens wisheth much joy health and prosperity 20 If ye and your children fare well and your affairs be to your contentment I give very great thanks to God having my hope in heaven 21 As for me I was weak or else I would have remembred kindly your honour and good will Returning out of Persia and being taken with a grievous disease I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all 22 Not distrusting mine health but having great hope to escape this sickness 23 But considering that even my father at what time he led an army into the high countreys appointed a successour 24 To the end that if any thing fell out contrary to expectation or if any tidings were brought that were grievous they of the land knowing to whom ‖ Or common affairs the state was left might not be troubled 25 Again considering how that the princes that are borderers and neighbours unto my kingdom wait for oppottunities and expect what shall be the event I have appointed my son Antiochus king whom I often committed and commended unto many of you when I went up into the high provinces to whom I have written as followeth 26 Therefore I pray and request you to
I am glorified in them 11 And now I am no more in the world but these are in the world and I come to thee Holy father keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me that they may be one as we are 12 While I was with them in the world I kept them in thy name those that thou gavest me I have kept and none of them is lost but the son of perdition * Psal 103 8. that the scripture might be fulfilled 13 And now come I to thee and these things I speak in the world that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves 14 I have given them thy word and the world hath hated them because they are not of the world even as I am not of the world 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil 16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world 17 Sanctifie them through thy truth thy word is truth 18 As thou hast sent me into the world even so have I also sent them into the world 19 And for their sakes I sanctifie my self that they also might be ‖ Or truly sanctified sanctified through the truth 20 Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall beleeve on me through their word 21 That they all may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us that the world may beleeve that thou hast sent me 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one even as we are one 23 I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me 24 * Chap. 12.26 Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world 25 O righteous Father the world hath not known thee but I have known thee and these have known that thou hast sent me 26 And I have declared unto them thy name and will declare it that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them CHAP. XVIII 1 Judas betrayeth Jesus 6 The officers fall to the ground 10 Peter smiteth off Malchus ear 12 Jesus is taken and led unto Annas and Caiaphas 15 Peters denial 19 Jesus examined before Caiaphas 28 His arraignment before Pilate 36 His kingdom 40 The Jews ask Barabbas to be let loose WHen Jesus had spoken these words * Mat. 25.36 he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron where was a garden into the which he entred and his disciples 2 And Judas also which betrayed him knew the place for Jesus oft-times resorted thither with his disciples 3 * Mat. 26.47 Judas then having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons 4 Jesus therefore knowing all things that should come upon him went forth and faid unto them Whom seek ye 5 They answered him Jesus of Nazareth Jesus saith unto them I am be And Judas also which betrayed him stood with them 6 Assoon then as he had said unto them I am be they went backward and fell to the ground 7 Then asked he them again Whom seek ye and they said Jesus of Nazareth 8 Jesus answered I have told you that I am be If therefore ye seek me let these go their way 9 That the saying might be fulfilled which he spake * Chap. 17.12 Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none 10 Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it and smote the high priests servant cut off his right ear The servants name was Malchus 11 Then said Jesus unto Peter Put up thy sword into the sheath the cup which my Father hath given me shall I not drink it 12 Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus and bound him 13 And led him away to Annas first for he was father in law to Caiaphas which was the high priest that same year ‖ And Annu sent Christ bound unto Caiaphas the high prest ver 24. 14 * Chap. 11.30 Now Caiaphas was he which gave counsel to the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people 15 ¶ * Mat. 26.58 And Simon Peter followed Jesus and so did another disciple that disciple was known unto the high priest and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest 16 But Peter stood at the door without Then went out that other disciple which was known unto the high priest and spake unto her that kept the door and brought in Peter 17 Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter Art not thou also one of this mans disciples He saith I am not 18 And the servants and officers stood there who had made a fire of coals for it was cold and they warmed themselves and Peter stood with them and warmed himself 19 ¶ The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples of his doctrine 20 Jesus answered him I spake openly to the world I ever taught in the synagogue and in the temple whither the Jews always resort and in secret have I said nothing 21 Why askest thou me ask them which heard me what I have said unto them behold they know what I said 22 And when he had thus spoken one of the officers which stood by stroke Jesus ‖ Or with a rod. with the palm of his hand saying Answerest thou the high priest so 23 Jesus answered him If I have spoken evil bear witness of the evil but if well why smitest thou me 24 * Mat. 26.57 Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas that high priest 25 And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself * Mat. 26.69 They said therefore unto him Art not thou also one of his disciples He denied it and said I am not 26 One of the servants of the high priest being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off saith Did not I see thee in the garden with him 27 Peter then denied again and immediately the cock crew 28 ¶ * Mat. 27.2 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto ‖ Or Pilates bouse the hall of judgement and it was early * Act. 10.28 and they themselves went not into the judgement-hall lest they should be defiled but that they might eat the pass over 29 Pilate then went out unto them and said What accusation bring you against this man 30 They answered and said unto him If he were not a malefactour we would not have delivered him up unto thee 31 Then said Pilate unto them Take ye him and judge him according to your
law The Jews therefore said unto him It is not lawful for us to put any man to death 32 * Mat. 20.19 That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled which he spake signifying what death he should die 33 * Mat. 27.11 Then Pilate entred into the judgement-hall again and called Jesus and said unto him Art thou the king of the Jews 34 Jesus answered him Sayest thou this thing of thy self or did others tell it thee of me 35 Pilate answered Am I a Jew Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me What hast thou done 36 Jesus answered My kingdom is not of this world if my kingdom were of this world then would my servants fight that I should not be delivered to the Jews but now is my kingdom not from hence 37 Pilate therefore said unto him Art thou a king then Jesus answered Thou sayest that I am a king To this end was I born and for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witness unto the truth Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice 38 Pilate saith unto him What is truth And when he had said this he went out again unto the Jews and saith unto them I finde in him no fault at all 39 * Mat. 27.15 But ye have a custom that I should release unto you one at the pass-over will ye therefore that I release unto you the king of the Jews 40 * Act. 3.14 Then cried they all again saying Plot this man but Barabbas Now Barabbas was a robber CHAP. XIX 1 Christ is scourged crowned with thorns and beaten 4 Pilate is desirous to release him but being overcome with the outrage of the Jews he delivered him to be crucified 23 They cast lots for his garments 26 He commendeth his mother to John 28 He dieth 31 His side is pierced 38 He is buried by Joseth and Nicodemus THen * Mat. 27.26 Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged him 2 And the souldiers platted a crown of thorns and put it on his head and they put on him a purple robe 3 And said Hail king of the Jews and they smote him with their hands 4 Pilate therefore went forth again and saith unto them Behold I bring him forth to you that ye may know that I finde no fault in him 5 Then came Jesus forth wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe And Pilate saith vnto them Behold the man 6 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him they cried out saying Crucifie him crucifie him Pilate saith unto them Take ye him and crucifie him for I finde no fault in him 7 The Jews answered him We have a law and by our law he ought to die because he made himself the Son of God 8 ¶ When Pilate therefore heard that saying he was the more afraid 9 And went again into the judgement-hall and saith unto Jesus Whence art thou but Jesus gave him no answer 10 Then saith Pilate unto him Speakest thou not unto me knowest thou not that I have power to crucifie thee and have power to release thee 11 Jesus answered Thou couldest have no power at all against me except it were given thee from above therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin 12 And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him but the Jews cried out saying If thou let this man go thou art not Cesars friend whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Cesar 13 ¶ When Pilate therefore heard that saying he brought Jesus forth and sat down in the judgement-seat in a place that is called the Pavement but in the Hebrew Gabbatha 14 And it was the preparation of the pass-over and about the sixth hour and he saith unto the Jews Behold your king 15 But they cried out Away with him away with him crucifie him Pilate saith unto them Shall I crucifie your king The chief priests answered We have no king but Cesar 16 * Mat. 27.31 Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified And they took Jesus and led him away 17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a scull which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha 18 Where they crucified him and two other with him on either side one and Jesus in the midst 19 ¶ And Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross And the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS 20 This title then read many of the Jews for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city and it was written in Hebrew and Greek and Latine 21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate Write not The king of the Jews but that he said I am king of the Jews 22 Pilate answered What I have written I have written 23 ¶ * Mat. 27.35 Then the souldiers when they had crucified Jesus took his garments and made four parts to every souldier a part and also his coat now the coat was without seam ‖ Or wrought woven from the top throughout 24 They said therefore among themselves Let us not rend it but cast lots for it whose it shall be that the scripture might be fulfilled which saith * Ps 22.18 They parted my raiment among them and for my vesture they did cast lots These things therefore the souldiers did 25 ¶ Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother and his mothers sister Mary the wife of ‖ Or Clopas Cleophas and Mary Magdalene 26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother and the disciple standing by whom he loved he saith unto his mother Woman behold thy son 27 Then saith he to the disciple Behold thy mother And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home 28 ¶ After this Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished * Psa 69.21 that the scripture might be fulfilled saith I thirst 29 Now there was set a vessel full of vineger and they filled a spunge with vineger and put it upon hyssop and put it to his mouth 30 When Jesus therefore had received the vineger he said It is finished and he bowed his head and gave up the ghost 31 The Jews therefore because it was the preparation that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath-day for that sabbath-day was an high day besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away 32 Then came the souldiers and brake the legs of the first and of the other which was crucified with him 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead already they brake not his legs 34 But one of the souldiers with a spear pierced his side and forthwith came there out bloud and water 35 And he that saw it bare record and his record is true and he knoweth that he saith true that ye might beleeve 36 For these things were done * Ex. 12.46 Num.
immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea but Silas and Timotheus abode there still 15 And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed they departed 16 ¶ Now while Paul waited for them at Athens his spirit was stirred in him when he saw the city ‖ Or full of idols wholly given to idolatry 17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews and with the devout persons and in the market daily with them that met with him 18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoicks encountred him and some said What will this ‖ Or base fellow babler say other some He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection 19 And they took him and brought him unto ‖ Or Mars-hill It was the highest court in Athens Areopagus saying May we know what this new doctrine whereof thou speakest is 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears we would know therefore what these things mean 21 For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing 22 ¶ Then Paul stood in the midst of ‖ Or the court of the Areopagites Mars hill and said Ye men of Athens I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious 23 For as I passed by and beheld your ‖ Or gods that you worship 2 Thes 2.4 devotions I found an altar with this inscription TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship him declare I unto you 24 * Chap. 7.48 God that made the world and all things therein seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth dwelleth not in temples made with hands 25 Neither is worshipped with mens hands * Psal 50.8 as though he needed any thing seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things 26 And hath made of one bloud all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation 27 That they should seek the Lord if haply they might feel after him and finde him though he be not far from every one of us 28 For in him we live and move and have our being as certain also of your own poets have said For we are also his offspring 29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God * Isa 40.18 we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver or stone graven by art and mans device 30 And the times of their ignorance God winked at but now commandeth all men every whereto repent 31 Because he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath ‖ Or offered faith given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead 32 ¶ And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead some mocked and others said We will hear thee again of this matter 33 So Paul departed from among them 34 Howbeit certain men clave unto him and beleeved among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them CHAP. XVIII 3 Paul laboureth with his hands and preacheth at Corinth to the Gentiles 9 The Lord encourageth him in a vision 12 He is accused before Gallio the deputy but is dismissed 18 Afterwards passing from city to city he strengthneth the disciples 24 Apollos being more perfectly instructed by Aquila and Priscilla 28 preacheth Christ with great efficacy AFter these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth 2 And found a certain Jew named * Rom. 16.3 Aquila born in Pontus lately come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome and came unto them 3 And because he was of the same craft he abode with them and wrought for by their occupation they were tent-makers 4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath and perswaded the Jews and the Greeks 5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia Paul was pressed in spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ 6 And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed * Matth. 10.14 he shook his raiment and said unto them Your bloud be upon your own heads I am clean from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles 7 ¶ And he departed thence and entred into a certain mans house named Justus one that worshipped God whose house joyned hard to the synagogue 8 * 1 Cor. 3 14. And Crispus the chief ruler of the synagogue beleeved on the Lord with all his house and many of the Corinthians hearing beleeved and were baptized 9 Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision Be not afraid but speak and hold not thy peace 10 For I am with thee and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee for I have much people in this city 11 And he †Gr. sat there continued there a year and six moneths teaching the word of God among them 12 ¶ And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul and brought him to the judgement-seat 13 Saying This fellow perswadeth men to worship God contrary to the law 14 And when Paul was now about to open his mouth Gallio said unto the Jews If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness O ye Jews reason would that I should bear with you 15 But if it be a question of words and names and of your law look ye to it for I will be no judge of such matters 16 And he drave them from the judgement-seat 17 Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes the chief ruler of the synagogue and beat him before the judgement-seat and Gallio cared for none of those things 18 ¶ And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while and then took his leave of the brethren and sailed thence into Syria and with him Priscilla and Aquila having shorn his head in Cenchrea for he had a vow 19 And he came to Ephesus and left them there but he himself entred into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews 20 When they deâ—â—red him to tarry longer time with them he consented not 21 But bade them farewel saying I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem but I will return again unto you * 1 Cor. 4.19 Jam. 4.15 if God will And he sailed from Ephesus 22 And when he had landed at Cesarea and gone up and saluted the church he went down to Antioch 23 And after he had spent some time there he departed and went over all the countrey of Galatia and Phrygia in order strengthning all the disciples 24
6.5 which was one of the seven and abode with him 9 And the same man had four daughters virgins which did prophesie 10 And as we tarried there many days there came down from Judea a certain prophet named Agabus 11 And when he was come unto us he took Pauls girdle and bound his own hands and feet and said Thus saith the holy Ghost So shall the Jews at Jerusalem binde the man that oweth this girdle and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles 12 And when we heard these things both we and they of that place besought him not to go up to Jerusalem 13 Then Paul answered What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart for I am ready not to be bound onely but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus 14 And when he would not be perswaded we ceased saying The will of the Lord be done 15 And after those days we took up our carriages and went up to Jerusalem 16 There went with us also certain of the disciples of Cesarea and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus an old disciple with whom we should lodge 17 And when we were come to Jerusalem the brethren received us gladly 18 And the day following Paul went in with us unto James and all the elders were present 19 And when he had saluted them he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministery 20 And when they heard it they glorified the Lord and â—aid unto him Thou seest brother how many thousands of Jews there are which beleeve and they are all zealous of the law 21 And they are informed of thee that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses saying that they ought not to curcumcise their children neither to walk after the customs 22 What is it therefore the multitude must needs come together for they will hear that thou art come 23 Do therefore this that we say to thee we have four men which have a vow on them 24 Them take and purifie thy self with them and be at charges with them that they may * Num. 6.18 Ch. 18.18 shave their heads and all may know that those things whereof they were informed concerning thee are nothing but that thou thy self also walkest orderly and keepest the law 25 As touching the Gentiles which beleeve * Ch. 15.20 we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing save onely that they keep themselves from things offered to idols and from bloud and from strangled and from fornication 26 Then Paul took the men the next day purifying himself with them entred into the temple * Num. 6.13 to signifie the accomplishment of the days of purification until that an offering should be offered for every one of them 27 And when the seven days were almost ended the Jews which were of Asia when they saw him in the temple stirred up all the people and laid hands on him 28 Crying out Men of Israel help this is the man that teacheth all men every where against the people the law this place further brought Greeks also into the temple and hath polluted this holy place 29 For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephelian whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple 30 And all the city was moved and the people ran together and they took Paul drew him out of the temple forthwith the doors were shut 31 And as they went about to kill him tidings came unto the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem was in an uproar 32 Who immediately took souldiers and centurions and ran down unto them and when they saw the chief captain and the souldiers they left beating of Paul 33 Then the chief captain came near and took him and commanded him to be bound with two chains and demanded who he was and what he had done 34 And some cried one thing some another among the multitude and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult he commanded him to be carried into the castle 35 And when he came upon the stairs so it was that he was born of the souldiers for the violence of the people 36 For the multitude of the people followed after crying Away with him 37 And as Paul was to be led into the castle he said unto the chief captain May I speak unto thee Who said Canst thou speak Greek 38 * Chap. 5.36 Art not thou that Egyptian which before these days madest an uproar and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers 39 But Paul said I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus a city in Cilicia a citizen of no mean city and I beseech thee suffer me to speak unto the people 40 And when he had given him license Paul stood on the stairs and beckned with the hand unto the people and when there was made a great silence he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue saying CHAP. XXII 2 Paul declareth at large how he was converted to the faith 17 and called to his apostleship 22 At the very mentioning of the Gentiles the people exclaim on him 24 He should have been scourged 25 but claiming the priviledge of a Roman he escapeth MEn brethren and fathers hear ye my defence which I make now unto you 2 And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them they kept the more silence and he saith 3 * Chap. 21.39 I am verily a man which am a Jew born in Tarsus a city in Cilicia yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers and was zealous towards God as ye all are this day 4 * Chap. 8.3 And I persecuted this way unto the death binding and delivering into prisons both men and women 5 As also the high priest doth hear me witness and all the estate of the elders from whom also I received letters unto the brethren and went to Damascus to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem for to be punished 6 And it came to pass that as I made my journey and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me 7 And I fell unto the ground and heard a voice saying unto me Saul Saul why persecutest thou me 8 And I answered Who art thou Lord And he said unto me I am Jesus of Nazareth whom thou persecutest 9 And they that were with me saw indeed the light and were afraid but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me 10 And I said What shall I do Lord And the Lord said unto me Arise and go into Damascus and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do 11 And when I could not see for the glory of
that light being led by the hand of them that were with me I came into Damascus 12 And one Ananias a devout man according to the law having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there 13 Came unto me and stood and said unto me Brother Saul receive thy sight And the same hour I looked up upon him 14 And he said The God of our fathers hath chosen thee that thou shouldest know his will and see that just one and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth 15 For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard 16 And now why tarriest thou arise and be baptized and wash away thy sins calling on the name of the Lord. 17 And it came to pass that when I was come again to Jerusalem even while I prayed in the temple I was in a trance 18 And saw him laying unto me Make haste and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me 19 And I said Lord they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that beleeved on thee 20 * Chap. 7.58 And when the bloud of thy martyr Stephen was shed I also was standing by and consenting unto his death and kept the raiment of them that slew him 21 And he said unto me Depart for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles 22 And they gave him audience unto this word and then lift up their voices and said Away with such a fellow from the earth for it is not sit that he should live 23 And as they cried out and cast off their clothes and threw dust into the air 24 The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle and bade that he should be examined by scourging that he might know wherefore they cried so against him 25 And as they bound him with thongs Paul said unto the centurion that stood by Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman and uncondemned 26 When the centurion heard that he went and told the chief captain saying Take heed what thou doest for this man is a Roman 27 Then the chief captain came and said unto him Tell me art thou a Roman He said Yea. 28 And the chief captain answered With a great sum obtained I this freedom And Paul said But I was free-born 29 Then straightway they departed from him which should have ‖ Or tortured him examined him and the chief captain also was afraid after he knew that he was a Roman and because he had bound him 30 On the morrow because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews he loosed him from his hands and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear and brought Paul down and set him before them CHAP. XXIII 3 As Paul pleadeth his cause 2 Ananias commandeth them to smite him 7 Dissension among his accusers 11 God encourageth him 14 The Jews laying wait for Paul 20 is declared unto the chief captain 27 He sendeth him to Felix the governour ANd Paul earnestly beholding the council said Men and brethren I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day 2 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth 3 Then said Paul unto him God shall smite thee thou whited wall for fittest thou to judge me after the law and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law 4 And they that stood by said Revilest thou Gods high priest 5 Then said Paul I wilt not brethren that he was the high priest For it is written * Exod. 22.28 Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people 6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees he cried out in the council Men and brethren * Phil. 3.5 I am a Pharisee the son of a Pharisee * Ch. 24.21 of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question 7 And when he had so said There arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the multitude was divided 8 * Mat. 22.23 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection neither angel nor spirit but the Pharisees confess both 9 And there arose a great cry and the scripes that were of the Pharisees part arose and strove saying We finde no evil in this man but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him let us not fight against God 10 And when there arose a great dissension the chief captain fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them commanded the souldiers to go down and to take him by force from among them and to bring him into the castle 11 And the night following the Lord stood by him and said Be of good cheer Paul for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem so must thou bear witness also at Rome 12 And when it was day certain of the Jews banded together and bound themselves ‖ Or with an oath of execration under a curse saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul 13 And they were more then fourty which had made this conspiracy 14 And they came to the chief priests and elders and said We have bound our selves under a great curse that we will eat nothing till we have slain Paul 15 Now therefore ye with the council signifie to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him and we or ever he come near are ready to kill him 16 And when Pauls sisters son heard of their lying in wait he went and entred into the castle and told Paul 17 Then Paul called one of the centurions unto him and said Bring this young man unto the chief captain for he hath a certain thing to tell him 18 So he took him and brought him to the chief captain and said Paul the prisoner called me unto him and prayed me to bring this young man unto thee who hath something to say unto thee 19 Then the chief captain took him by the hand and went with him aside privately and asked him What is that thou hast to tell me 20 And he said the Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council as though they would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly 21 But do not thou yeeld unto them for there lie in wait for him of them mo then fourty men which have bound themselves with an oath that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him and now are they ready looking for a promise from thee 22 So the chief captain then let the young man depart and charged him See thou tell no man that thou hast shewed these things to me 23 And he called unto him two centurions saying Make ready two hundred souldiers
to go to Cesarea and hors-men threescore and ten and spearmen two hundred at the third hour of the night 24 And provide them beasts that they may set Paul on and bring him safe unto Felix the governour 25 And he wrote a letter after this manner 26 Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governour Felix sendeth greeting 27 This man was taken of the Jews and should have been killed of them then came I with an army and rescued him having understood that he was a Roman 28 And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him I brought him forth into their council 29 Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds 30 And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man I sent straightway to thee and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him Farewel 31 Then the souldiers as it was commanded them took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris 32 On the morrow they left the hors-men to go with him and returned to the castle 33 Who when they came to Cesarea and delivered the epistle to the governour presented Paul also before him 34 And when the governour had read the letter he asked of what province he was And when he understood that he was of Cilicia 35 I will hear thee said he when thine accusers are also come And he commanded him to be kept in Herods judgement-hall CHAP. XXIV 1 Paul being accused by Tertullus the oratour 10 answers for his life and doctrine 24 He preacheth Christ to the governour and his wife 26 The governour hopeth for a brise but in vain 27 At last going out of his of fice he leaveth Paul in prison ANd after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders and with a certain oratour named Tettullus who enformed the governour against Paul 2 And when he was called forth Tettullus began to accuse him saying Sâ—eing that by thee we enjoy great quietness and that very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence 3 We accept it always and in all places most noble Felix with all thankfulness 4 Notwithstanding that I be not further tedious unto thee I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words 5 For we have found this man a Pestilent fellow and a mover of feastion among all the Jews throughout the world and a ring-leader of the sect of the Nazarens 6 Who also â—ath gone about to profane the temple whom we took and would have judged according to our law 7 But the chief captain Lysias came upon us and with great violence took him away out of our hands 8 Commanding his accuser to come unto thee by examining of whom thy sell may it take knowledge of all these things whereof we accuse him 9 And the Jews also assented saying that these things were so 10 Then Paul after that the governour had beckned unto him to speak answered Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation I do the more cheerfully answer for my self 11 Because that thou mâ—yest understand that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship 12 And they neither sound me in the temple disputing with any man neither raning up the people neither in the synagogues nor in the city 13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me 14 But this I conâ—ess unto thee that alter the way which they call heresie so worship I the God of my fathers beleeving all things which are written in the law and the prophets 15 And have hope towards God which they themselves also allow that there shall be a resurrection of the dead both of the just and unjust 16 And herein do I exercise my self to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men 17 Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation and offerings 18 * Chap. 21.17 Whereupon certain Jews from Asia sound me purified in the temple neither with multitude not with tumult 19 Who ought to have been here before thee and object if they had ought against me 20 Or else let these same here say if they have sound any evil-doing in me while I stood before the council 21 Except it be for this one voice that I cried standing among them * Chap. 23.5 Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day 22 And when Felix heard these things having more perfect knowledge of that way he deferred them and said When Lysias the chief captain shall come down I will know the uttermost of your matter 23 And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul and to let him have liberty and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him 24 And after certain days when Felix came with his wife Drusilla which was a Jewess he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ 25 And as he reasoned of righteousness temperance and judgement to come Felix trembled and answered Go thy way for this time when I have a convenient season I will call for thee 26 He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul that he might loose him wherefore he sent for him the oftner and communed with him 27 But alter two years Porcius Festus came into Felix room and Felix willing to shew the Jews a pleasure left Paul bound CHAP. XXV 2 The Jews accuse Paul before Festus 8 He answereth for himself 11 and appealeth unto Cesar 14 Afterwards Festus openeth his matter to king Agrippa 23 and â—e is brought forth 25 Festus cleareth him to have done nothing worthy of death NOw when Festus was come into the province after three days he ascended from Cesarea to Jerusalem 2 Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews enformed him against Paul and besought him 3 And desired favour against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem laying wait in the way to kill him 4 But Festus answered that Paul should be kept at Cesarea and that he himself would depart shortly thither 5 Let them therefore said he which among you are able go down with me and accuse this man it there be any wickedness in him 6 And when he had tarried among them ‖ Or as some copies read no more then eiâ—gt no ten days more then ten days he went down unto Cesarea and the next day sitting in the judgement-seat commanded Paul to be brought 7 And when he was come the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about and said many and grievous complaints against Paul which they could not prove 8 While he answered for himself Neither against the law of the Jews neither against the temple nor yet against Cesar have I
unto death or of obedience unto righteousness 17 But God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine †Gr. whereto ye were delivered which was delivered you 18 Being then made free from sin ye became the servants of righteousness 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh for as ye have yeelded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity even so now yeeld your members servants to righteousness unto holiness 20 For when ye were the servants of sin ye were free †Gr. to righteousness from righteousness 21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed for the end of those things is death 22 But now being made free from sin and become servants to God ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life 23 For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. CHAP. VII 1 No law hath power over a man longer then he liveth 4 But we are dead to the law 7 Yet is not the law sin 12 but holy just good 16 as I acknowledge who am grieved because I cannot keep it KNow ye not brethren for I speak to them that know the law how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth 2 For * 1 Cor. 7.39 the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth but if the husband be dead she is loosed from the law of her husband 3 So then if while her husband liveth she be married to another man she shall be called an adulteress but if her husband be dead she is free from that law so that she is no adulteress though she be married to another man 4 Wherefore my brethren ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ that ye should be married to another even to him who is raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit unto God 5 For when we were in the flesh the †Gr. passions motions of sins which were by the law did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death 6 But now we are delivered from the law ‖ Or being dead to that that being dead wherein we were held that we should serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter 7 What shall we say then Is the law sin God forbid Nay I had not known sin but by the law for I had not known ‖ Or concupiscence lust except the law had said * Ex. 20.17 Deut. 5.21 Thou shalt not cover 8 But sin taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence For without the law sin was dead 9 For I was alive without the law once but when the commandment came sin revived and I died 10 And the commandment which was ordained to life I found to be unto death 11 For sin taking occasion by the commandment deceived me and by it slew me 12 Wherefore the law is holy and the commandment holy and just and good 13 Was then that which is good made death unto me God forbid But sin that it might appear sin working death in me by that which is good that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful 14 For we know that the law is spiritual but I am carnal sold under sin 15 For that which I do I †Gr. know allow not for what I would that do I not but what I hate that do I. 16 If then I do that which I would not I consent unto the law that it is good 17 Now then it is no more I that do it but sin that dwelleth in me 18 For I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing for to will is present with me but how to perform that which is good I finde not 19 For the good that I would I do not but the evil which I would not that I do 20 Now if I do that I would not it is no more I that do it but sin that dwelleth in me 21 I finde then a law that when I would do good evil is present with me 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man 23 But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my minde and bringing me into â—aptivity to the law of sin which is in my members 24 O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from ‖ Or this body of death the body of this death 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the minde I my self serve the law of God but with the flesh the law of sin CHAP. VIII 1 They that are in Christ and live according to the Spirit are free from condemnation 5 13 What harm cometh of the flesh 6 14 and what good of the Spirit 17 and what of being Gods children 19 whose glorious deliverance all things long for 29 It was beforehand dâ—creed from God 38 What can sever us from his love THere is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and ‖ Or by a sacrifice for sin for sin condemned sin in the flesh 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit 5 For they that are after the flesh do minde the things of the flesh but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit 6 For †Gr. the minding of the flesh to be carnally minded is death but †Gr. the minding of the Spirit to be spiritually minded is life and peace 7 Because †Gr. the minding of the flesh the carnal minde is enmity against God for it is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God 9 But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his 10 And if Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin but the Spirit is life because of righteousness 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies ‖ Or because of his Spirit by his Spirit that dwelleth in you 12 Therefore brethren we are debters not to
to shew his wrath and to make his power known endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath ‖ Or made up fitted to destruction 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had afore prepared unto glory 24 Even us whom he hath called not of the Jews onely but also of the Gentiles 25 As he saith also in Osee * Hos 2.23 1 Pet. 2.10 I will call them my people which were not my people and her beloved which was not beloved 26 * Hos 1.10 And it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them Ye are not my people there shall they be called the children of the living God 27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel * Isa 10.22 23. Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea a remnant shall be saved 28 For he will finish ‖ Or the account the work and cut it short in righteousness because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth 29 And as Esaias said before * Isa 1.9 Except the Lord of sabaoth had left us a seed we had been as Sodoma and been made like unto Gomorrha 30 What shall we say then That the Gentiles which followed not after righteousness have attained to righteousness even the righteousness which is of faith 31 But Israel which followed after the law of rigteousness hath not attained to the law of righteousness 32 Wherefore Because they sought it not by saith but as it were by the works of the law for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone 33 As it is written * Isa 8.14 and 28.16 1 Pet. 2.6 Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and rock of offence c whosoever beleeveth on him shall not be ‖ Or confounded ashamed CHAP. X. 5 The scripture shewâ—th the difference betwixt the righteousness of the law and this of faith 11 and that all both Jew and Gentile that beleeve shall not be confounded 18 and that the Gentiles shall receive the word and beleeve 19 Israel was not ignorant of these things BRethren my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge 3 For they being ignorant of Gods righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that beleeveth 5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law * Levit. 18.5 Ezek. 20.11 Gal. 3.12 That the man which doeth these things shall live by them 6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise * Deu. 30.12 Say not in thine heart Who shall ascend into heaven that is to bring Christ down from above 7 Or Who shall descend into the deep that is to bring up Christ again from the dead 8 But what saith it * Deu. 30.14 The word is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart that is the word of faith which we preach 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt beleeve in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved 10 For with the heart man beleeveth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation 11 For the scripture saith * Isa 28.16 Whosoever beleeveth on him shall not be ashamed 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him 13 * Joel 2.32 Act. 2.21 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved 14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not beleeved and how shall they beleeve in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher 15 And how shall they preach except they be sent as it is written * Isa 52.7 Nah. 1.15 How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel For Esaias saith * Isa 53.1 Joh. 12 38. Lord who hath beleeved †Or the hearing of 〈◊〉 our ‖ Or preaching report 17 So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God 18 But I say Have they not heard Yes verily * Ps 19.4 their found went into all the earth and their words unto the ends of the world 19 But I say Did not Israel know First Moses faith * Deu. 32.21 I will provoke you to jealousie by them that are no people and by a foolish nation I will anger you 20 But Esaias is very bold and saith * Is 65.1 I was found of them that sought me not I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me 21 But to Israel he saith * Is 65.2 All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people CHAP. XI 1 God hath not cast off all Israel 7 Some were elected though the rest were hardned 1â— There is hope of their conversion 18 The Gentiles may not insult upon them 26 for there is a promise of their salvation 33 Gods judgments are unsearchable I Say then Hath God cast away his people God forbid For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham of the tribe of Benjamin 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias how he maketh intercession to God against Israel saying 3 * 1 Kin. 19.14 Lord they have killed thy prophets and digged down thine altars and I am left alone and they seek my life 4 But what saith the answer of God unto him * 1 Kin. 19.18 I have reserved to my self seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace 6 And if by grace then is it no more of works otherwise grace is no more grace But if it be of works then is it no more grace otherwise work is no more work 7 What then Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for but the election hath obtained it and the rest were ‖ Or bardned blinded 8 According as it is written * Is 29.10 God hath given them the spirit of ‖ Or remorse stumber * Is 6.9 eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear unto this day 9 And David saith * Ps 69.22 Let their table be made a snare and a trap and a stumbling-block and a recompence unto them 10 * Ps 69.23 Let their eyes be darkned that they may not
possible ye would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me 16 Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth 17 They zealously affect you but not well yea they would exclude ‖ Or us you that you might affect them 18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing and not onely when I am present with you 19 My little children of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you 20 I desire to be present with you now and to change my voice for ‖ Or I am perplezed for you I stand in doubt of you 21 Tell me ye that desire to be under the law do ye not hear the law 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons the one by a bond-maid the other by a free-woman 23 But he who was of the bond-woman was born after the flesh but he of the free-woman was by promise 24 Which things are an allegory for these are the two ‖ Or testaments covenants the one from the mount Sinai which gendereth to bondage which is Agar 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia and ‖ Or is in the some rank with answereth to Jerusalem which now is and is in bondage with her children 26 But Jerusalem which is above is free which is the mother of us all 27 For it is written * Is 54.1 Rejoyce thou barren that bearest not break forth and cry thou that travailest not for the desolate hath many more children then she which hath an husband 28 Now we brethren as Isaac was are * Rom. 9.8 the children of promise 29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit even so it is now 30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture * Gen. 21.10 Cast out the bond-woman and her son for the son of the bond-woman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman 31 So then brethren we are not children of the bond-woman but of the free CHAP. V. 1 He moveth them to stand in their liberty 3 and not to observe circumoision 13 but rather love which is the sum of the law 19 He reckoneth up the works of the flesh 22 and the fruits of the Spirit 25 and exhorteth to walk in the Spirit STand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free and be not intangled again with the yoke of bondage 2 Behold I Paul say unto you that * Act 15.2 if ye be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing 3 For I testifie again to every man that is circumcised that he is a debtour to do the whole law 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you whosoever of you are justified by the law ye are faln from grace 5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but faith which worketh by love 7 Ye did run well ‖ Or who did drive you back who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth 8 This perswasion cometh not of him that calleth you 9 * 1 Cor. 5.6 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump 10 I have confidence in you through the Lord that you will be none otherwise minded but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgement whosoever he be 11 And I brethren if I yet preach circumcision why do I yet suffer persecution then is the offence of the cross ceased 12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you 13 For brethren ye have been called unto liberty onely use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh but by love serve one another 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word even in this * Lev. 19.18 Mat. 22.39 Rom. 13.9 Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self 15 But if ye bite and devour one another take heed that ye be not consumed one of another 16 This I say then Walk in the Spirit and ‖ Or fulfil not ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other so that ye cannot do the things that ye would 18 But if ye be led by the Spirit ye are not under the law 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest which are these Adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness 20 Idolatry witchcraft hatred variance emulations wrath strife seditions heresies 21 Envyings murders drunkenness revellings and such like of the which I tell you before as I have also told you in time past that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is Love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith 23 Meekness temperance against such there is no law 24 And they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the ‖ Or pasâ—ions affections and lusts 25 If we live in the Spirit let us also walk in the Spirit 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory provoking one another envying one another CHAP. VI. 1 He moveth them to deal mildly with a brother that hath slipped 2 and to bear one anothers burden 6 to be liberal to their teachers 9 and not weary of welt doing 12 He sheweth what they intend that preach circumcision 14 He glorieth in nothing save in the cross of Christ BRethren ‖ Or although if a man be overtaken in a fault ye which are spiritual restore such an one in the spirit of meekness considering thy self lest thou also be tempted 2 Bear ye one anothers burdens and so fulfil the law of Christ 3 For if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself 4 But let every man prove his own work and then shall he have rejoycing in himself alone and not in another 5 For * 3 Co. 3.8 every man shall bear his own burden 6 * 1 Cor. 9.14 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things 7 Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap 8 For the that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting 9 And * 2 Thes 3.13 let us not be weary in well-doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not 10 As we have therefore opportunity let us do good unto all men especially unto them who are of the houshold of faith 11 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand 12 As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh they constrain you to be circumcised onely lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ 13 For neither they themselves who are
the rich and to despise the poor brethren 13 rather we are to be loving and merciful 14 and not to boast of faith where no deeds are 17 which is but a dead faith 19 the faith of devils 21 not of Abraham 25 and Rabab MY brethren have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of glory with * Lev. 19.15 Deut. 1.17 and 16.19 Prov. 24.23 respect of persons 2 For if there come unto your †Gr. synagogue assembly a man with a gold ring in goodly apparel and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment 3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing and say unto him Sit thou here ‖ Or well or seemly in a good place and say to the poor Stand thou there or sit here under my footstool 4 Are ye not then partial in your selves and are become judges of evil thoughts 5 Hearken my beloved brethren Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of ‖ Or that the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him * Lev. 19.18 Rom 13.9 6 But ye have desâ—ised the poor Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment-seats 7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called 8 If ye fulfil the royal saw according to the scripture * Lev. 19.18 Rom 13.9 Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self ye do well 9 But if ye have respect to persons ye commit sin and are convinced of the law as transgressours 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point he is guisty of all 11 For ‖ Or that law which said he that said Do not commit adultery said also Do not kill Now if thou commit no adultery yet if thou kill thou art become a transgressour of the law 12 So speak ye c so do as they the shall be judged by the law of liberty 13 For he shall have judgement without mercy that hath shewed no mercy and mercy ‖ Or glorieth rejoyceth against judgement 14 What doth it profit my brethren though a man say he hath faith and have not works can faith save him 15 If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food 16 And one of you say unto them Depart in peace be you warmed and filled notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body what doth it profit 17 Even so faith if it hath not works is dead being †Gr by it self alone 18 Yea a man may say Thou hast faith and I have works shew me thy faith ‖ Some copies read by thy works without thy works I will shew thee my faith by my works 19 Thou beleevest that there is one God thou doest well the devils also beleeve and tremble 20 But wilt thou know O vain man that faith without works is dead 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar 22 ‖ Or thou seest Seest thou how faith wrought with his works and by works was faith made perfect 23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith * Gen. 15.6 Rum 4.3 Gal. 3.6 Abraham beleeved God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness and he was called the friend of God 24 Ye see then how the by works a man is justified not by faith onely 25 Likewise also was not Rahab the Harlot justified by works when she had received the messengers and had sent them out another way 26 For as the body without the ‖ Or breath spirit is dead so faith without works is dead also CHAP. III. 1 We are not rashly or arrogantly to reprove others 5 but rather to bridle the tongue a little member but a powerful instrument of much good and great barm 13 They who be truly wise be midde and peaceable without envying and strife MY brethren be not many masters knowing that we shall receive the greater ‖ Or judgement condemnation 2 For in many things we offend all * Ecclus. 14.1 and 19.16 and 25.8 If any man offend not in word the same is a perfect man and able also to bridle the whole body 3 Behold we put bits in the horses mouths that they may obey us and we turn about their whole body 4 Behold also the ships which though they be so great and are driven of fierce winds yet are they turned about with a very small helm whithersoever the governour listeth 5 Even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things Behold how great ‖ Or. wood a matter a little fire kindlâ—th 6 And the tongue is a fire a world of iniquity so is the tongue amongst our members that it defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the course of nature and it is let on fire of hell 7 For every †Gr. nature kinde of beasts and of birds and of serpents and things in the sea is tamed and hath been tamed of †Gr. nature of man mankinde 8 But the tongue can no man tame it is an unruly evil full of deadly poyson 9 Therewith bless we God even the Father and therewith curse we men which are made after the similitude of God 10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing My brethren these things ought not so to be 11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same ‖ Or bek place sweet water and bitter 12 Can the fig-tree my brethren bear olive-berries either a vine sigs so can no fountain both yeeld salt water and fresh 13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge amongst you let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts glory not and lie not against the truth 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly ‖ Or natural sensual devilish 16 For where envying and strife is there is †Gr tumult or unquietness confusion and every evil work 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easte to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits ‖ Or without wrangling without partiality and without hypocrisie 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace CHAP. IV. 1 We are to strive against covetousness 4 intemperance 5 pride 11 detraction and rash judgement of others 13 and not to be confident in the good success of worldly business but mindful ever of the uncertainty of this life to commit our selves and all our affairs to Gods providence FRom whence come wars and ‖ Or brawlings fightings among you come they not hence even of your ‖ Or pleasures lusts that war in your members 2 Ye suit and have not ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain ye sight
foreshew this lest they should perish and not know why they were afflicted 20 Yea the tasting of death touched the righteous also and there was a destruction of the * Num. 16.46 multitude in the wilderness but the wrath endured not long 21 For then the blameless man made haste and stood forth to defend them and bringing the shield of his proper ministery even prayer and the propitiation of incense set himself against the wrath and so brought the calamity to an end declaring that he was thy servant 22 So he overcame the destroyer not with strength of body nor force of arms but with a word subdued he him that punished alledging the oaths and covenants made with the fathers 23 For when the dead were now fain down by heaps one upon another standing between he ‖ Or out off stayed the wrath and parted the way to the living 24 * Ex. 28.6 9.36 For in the long garment was the whole world and in the four rows of the stones was the glory of the fathers graven and thy Majesty upon the diadem of his head 25 Unto these the destroyer gave place and was afraid of them for it was enough that they onely tasted of the wrath CHAP. XIX 1 Why God showed no mercy to the Egyptians 5 and how wonderfully be dealt with his people 14 The Egyptians were worst then the Sodomites 18 The wonderful agreement of the creatures to serve Gods people AS for the ungodly wrath came upon them without mercy unto the end for he knew before what they would do 2 How that having given them leave to depart and sent them hastily away they would repent and pursue them 3 For whilest they were yet mourning and making lamentation at the graves of the dead they added another foolish device and pursued them as fugitives whom they had ‖ Or cast out by intreaty intreated to be gone 4 For the destiny whereof they were worthy drew them unto this end and made them forget the things that had already hapned that they might fulfil the punishment which was wanting to their torments 5 And that thy people might pass a wonderful way but they might finde a strange death 6 For the whole creature in his proper kinde was fashioned again anew serving the peculiar commandments that were given unto them that thy children might be kept without hurt 7 As namely a cloud shadowing â—â—e camp and where water stood before dry land appeared and 〈◊〉 of the Red sea a way without impediment and out of the viâ—â—â—â—t stream a green field 8 Wherethrough all the people wâ—â—â— that were defended with thy hand seeing thy marvellous strange wonders 9 For they went at large like horses and leaped like lambs praising thee O Lord who hadst delivered them 10 For they were yet mindful of the things that were done while they sojourned in the strange land how the ground brought forth ‖ Or lice flies in stead of cattel and how the river cast up a multitude of frogs in stead of fishes 11 But afterwards they saw a new generation of fowls when being led with their appetite they asked delicate meats 12 For quails came up unto them from the sea for their ‖ Or comfort contentment 13 And punishments came upon the sinners not without former signs by the force of thunders for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness insomuch as they used a more hard and hateful behaviour towards strangers 14 For the Sodomites did not receive those whom they knew not when they came but these brought friends into bondage that had well deserved of them 15 And not onely so but peradventure some respect shall be had of those because they used strangers not friendly 16 But these very grievously afflicted them whom they had received with feastings and were already made partakers of the same laws with them 17 Therefore even with blindness were these stricken as those were at the doors of the righteous man when being compassed about with horrible great darkness every one sought the passage of his own doors 18 For the elements were changed †Or. by themselves in themselves by a kinde of harmony like as in a psaltery notes change the name of the tune and yet are always sounds which may well be perceived by the sight of the things that have been done 19 For earthly things were turned into watery and the things that before swam in the water now went upon the ground 20 The fire had power in the water forgetting his own vertue and the water forgat his own quenching nature 21 On the other side the flames wasted not the flesh of the corruptible living things though they walked therein neither melted they the icie kinde of heavenly meat that was of nature apt to melt 22 For in all things O Lord thou didst magnify thy people and glorify them neither didst thou lightly regard them but didst assist them in every time and place The Wisdom of JESVS the son of SIRACH or ECCLESIASTICUS A prologue made by an uncertain Author Some reser this prologue to Athanasius because it is found in his Synopsis THis Jesus was the son of Sirach and grandchilde to Jesus of the same name with him this man therefore lived in the latter times after the people had been led away captive and called home again and almost after all he prophets Now his grandfather Jesus as he himself witnesseth was a man of great diligence and wisdom among the Hebrews who did not onely gather the grave and short sentences of wise men that had been before him but himself also uttered some of his own full of much understanding and wisdom When as therefore the first Jesus died leaving this book almost ‖ Or collected perfected Sirach his son receiving it after him left it to his own son Jesus who having gotten it into his hands compiled it all orderly into one volume and called it Wisdom intituling it both by his own name his fathers name and his grandfathers alluring the hearer by the very name of Wisdom to have a greater love to the study of this book It containeth therefore wise sayings dark sentences and parables and certain particular ancient godly stories of men that pleased God also his prayer and song moreover what benefits God had vouchsafed his people and what plagues he had heaped upon their enemies This Jesus did imitate Solomon and was no less famous for wisdom and learning both being indeed a man of great learning so reputed also The prologue of the Wisdom of JESUS the son of SIRACH WHereas many and great things have been delivered unto us by the law and the prophets and by others that have followed their steps for the which things Israel ought to be commended for learning and wisdom and whereof not onely the readers must needs become skilful themselves but also they that desire to learn be able to profit them which are ‖ Or of
another nation without both by speaking and writing my grandfather Jesus when he had much given himself to the reading of the law and the prophets and other books of our fathers and had gotten therein good judgement was drawn on also himself to write something pertaining to learning and wisdom to the intent that those which are desirous to learn and are addâ—cted to these things might profit much more in living according to the law Wherefore let me intreat you to read it with favour and attention and to pardon us wherein we may seem to come short of some words which we have laboured to interpret For the same things uttered in Hebrew and translated into another tongue have not the same force in them and not onely these things but the law it self and the †Gr. prophesies prophets and the rest of the books have no small ‖ Or excellency difference when they are spoken in their own language For in the eight and thirtieth year coming into Egypt when Euergetes was king and continuing there some time I found a ‖ Or help of learning book of no small learning therefore I thought it most necessary for me to bestow some diligence and travel to interpret it using great watchfulness and skill in that space to bring the book to an end and set it forth for them also which in a strange countrey are willing to learn being prepared before in manners to live after the law CHAP. I. 1 All wisdom is from God 10 He giveth it to them that love him 12 The sear of God is full of many blessings 28 To fear God without hypocrisy ALl * 1 King 3.9 wisdom cometh from the Lord and is with him for ever 2 Who can number the sand of the sea and the drops of rain and the days of eternity 3 Who can finde out the height of heaven and the breadth of the earth and the deep and wisdom 4 Wisdom hath been created before all things and the understanding of prudence from everlasting 5 The word of God most High is the fountain of wisdom and her ways are everlasting commandments 6 * Rom. 11.34 To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed or who hath known her wise counsels 7 Unto whom hath the knowledge of wisdom been made manifest and who hath understood her great experience 8 There is one wise and greatly to be feared the Lord sitting upon his throne 9 He created her and saw her and numbred her and poured her out upon all his works 10 She is with all flesh according to his gist and he hath given her to them that love him 11 The fear of the Lord is honour and glory and gladness and a crown of rejoycing 12 The fear of the Lord maketh a merry heart and giveth joy and gladness and a long life 13 Whoso feareth the Lord it shall go well with him at the last and he ‖ Or shall blessed shall finde favour in the day of his death 14 * Prov. 1.7 Ps 111.10 To fear the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and it was created with the faithful in the womb 15 She hath built an everlasting foundation with men and she shall continue * 2 Chr. 20.21 with their seed 16 To fear the Lord is fulness of wisdom and filleth men with her fruits 17 She filleth all their house with things desirable and the garners with her increase 18 The fear of the Lord is a crown of wisdom making peace and perfect health to flourish both which are the gifts of God and it enlargeth their rejoycing that love him 19 Wisdom raineth down skill and knowledge of understanding and exalteth them to honour that hold her fast 20 The root of wisdom is to fear the Lord and the branches thereof are long life 21 The fear of the Lord driveth away sins and where it is present it turneth away wrath 22 A furious man cannot ‖ Or escape punishment be justified for the sway of his fury shall be his destruction 23 A patient man will bear for a time and afterward joy shall spring up unto him 24 He will hide his words for a time and the lips of many shall declare his wisdom 25 The parables of knowledge are in the treasures of wisdom but godliness is an abomination to a sinner 26 If thou desire wisdom keep the commandments and the Lord shall give her unto thee 27 For the fear of the Lord is wisdom and instruction and faith and meekness are his delight 28 ‖ Or be not disobedient to Distrust not the fear of the Lord when thou art poor and come not unto him with a double heart 29 Be nor an hypocrite in the sight of men and take good heed what thou speakest 30 Exalt not thy fell lest thou fall and bring dishonour upon thy soul and so God discover thy secrets and cast thee down in the midst of the congregation because thou camest not in truth to the sear of the Lord but thy heart is full of deceit CHAP. II. 1 Gods servants must look for trouble 7 and be patient and trust in him 12 For wo to them that do not so 15 But they that fear the Lord will do so MY son if * Matt. 4.1 2 Tim. 3.12 1 Pet. 4.12 thou come to serve the Lord prepare thy soul for temptation 2 Set thy heart aright and constantly endure and ‖ Or haste not make not haste in time of trouble 3 Cleave unto him and depart not away that thou mayest be increased at thy last end 4 Whatsoever is brought upon thee take cheerfully and be patient when thou art changed to a low estate 5 * Wild. 26. Prov. 17.3 For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity 6 Beleeve in him and he will help thee order thy way aright and trust in him 7 Ye that fear the Lord wait for his mercy and go not aside lest ye fall 8 Ye that fear the Lord beleeve him and your reward shall not fail 9 Ye that fear the Lord hope for good and for everlasting joy and mercy 10 Look at the generations of old and see * Psal 37.25 did ever any trust in the Lord and was confounded or did any abide in his fear and was forsaken or whom did he ever despise that called upon him 11 For the Lord is full of compassion and mercy long-suffering and very pitiful and forgiveth sins and saveth in time of affliction 12 Wo be to fearful hearts and faint hands and the sinner that goeth two ways 13 Wo unto him that is faint-hearted for he beleeveth not therefore shall he not be defended 14 Wo unto you that have lost patience and what will ye do when the Lord shall visit you 15 They that fear the Lord will not disobey his word and * John 14.23 they that love him will keep his ways 16 They that fear the Lord will seek that which