2 Corinthians 11
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Would to God you could bear with some little of my folly: but do bear with me.
1Utinam sustineretis modicum quid insipientiæ meæ, sed et supportare me:
2For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
2æmulor enim vos Dei æmulatione. Despondi enim vos uni viro, virginem castam exhibere Christo.
3But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted, and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.
3Timeo autem ne sicut serpens Hevam seduxit astutia sua, ita corrumpantur sensus vestri, et excidant a simplicitate, quæ est in Christo.
4For if he that cometh preacheth another Christ, whom we have not preached; or if you receive another Spirit, whom you have not received; or another gospel which you have not received; you might well bear with him.
4Nam si is qui venit, alium Christum prædicat, quem non prædicavimus, aut alium spiritum accipitis, quem non accepistis: aut aliud Evangelium, quod non recepistis: recte pateremini.
5For I suppose that I have done nothing less than the great apostles.
5Existimo enim nihil me minus fecisse a magnis Apostolis.
6For although I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but in all things we have been made manifest to you.
6Nam etsi imperitus sermone, sed non scientia, in omnibus autem manifestati sumus vobis.
7Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself, that you might be exalted? Because I preached unto you the gospel of God freely?
7Aut numquid peccatum feci, meipsum humilians, ut vos exaltemini? quoniam gratis Evangelium Dei evangelizavi vobis?
8I have taken from other churches, receiving wages of them for your ministry.
8Alias ecclesias expoliavi, accipiens stipendium ad ministerium vestrum.
9And, when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied who came from Macedonia; and in all things I have kept myself from being burthensome to you, and so I will keep myself.
9Et cum essem apud vos, et egerem, nulli onerosus fui: nam quod mihi deerat, suppleverunt fratres, qui venerunt a Macedonia: et in omnibus sine onere me vobis servavi, et servabo.
10The truth of Christ is in me, that this glorying shall not be broken off in me in the regions of Achaia.
10Est veritas Christi in me, quoniam hæc gloriatio non infringetur in me in regionibus Achaiæ.
11Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth it.
11Quare? quia non diligo vos? Deus scit.
12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off the occasion from them that desire occasion, that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
12Quod autem facio, et faciam: ut amputem occasionem eorum qui volunt occasionem, ut in quo gloriantur, inveniantur sicut et nos.
13For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
13Nam ejusmodi pseudoapostoli sunt operarii subdoli, transfigurantes se in apostolos Christi.
14And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light.
14Et non mirum: ipse enim Satanas transfigurat se in angelum lucis.
15Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers be transformed as the ministers of justice, whose end shall be according to their works.
15Non est ergo magnum, si ministri ejus transfigurentur velut ministri justitiæ: quorum finis erit secundum opera ipsorum.
16I say again, (let no man think me to be foolish, otherwise take me as one foolish, that I also may glory a little.)
16Iterum dico (ne quis me putet insipientem esse, alioquin velut insipientem accipite me, ut et ego modicum quid glorier),
17That which I speak, I speak not according to God, but as it were in foolishness, in this matter of glorying.
17quod loquor, non loquor secundum Deum, sed quasi in insipientia, in hac substantia gloriæ.
18Seeing that many glory according to the flesh, I will glory also.
18Quoniam multi gloriantur secundum carnem: et ego gloriabor.
19For you gladly suffer the foolish; whereas yourselves are wise.
19Libenter enim suffertis insipientes, cum sitis ipsi sapientes.
20For you suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take from you, if a man be lifted up, if a man strike you on the face.
20Sustinetis enim si quis vos in servitutem redigit, si quis devorat, si quis accipit, si quis extollitur, si quis in faciem vos cædit.
21I speak according to dishonour, as if we had been weak in this part. Wherein if any man dare (I speak foolishly), I dare also.
21Secundum ignobilitatem dico, quasi nos infirmi fuerimus in hac parte. In quo quis audet (in insipientia dico) audeo et ego:
22They are Hebrews: so am I. They are Israelites: so am I. They are the seed of Abraham: so am I.
22Hebræi sunt, et ego: Israëlitæ sunt, et ego: semen Abrahæ sunt, et ego.
23They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise). I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
23Ministri Christi sunt (ut minus sapiens dico), plus ego: in laboribus plurimis, in carceribus abundantius, in plagis supra modum, in mortibus frequenter.
24Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes, save one.
24A Judæis quinquies, quadragenas, una minus, accepi.
25Thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I was in the depth of the sea.
25Ter virgis cæsus sum, semel lapidatus sum: ter naufragium feci, nocte et die in profundo maris fui,
26In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils from false brethren.
26in itineribus sæpe, periculis fluminum, periculis latronum, periculis ex genere, periculis ex gentibus, periculis in civitate, periculis in solitudine, periculis in mari, periculis in falsis fratribus:
27In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
27in labore et ærumna, in vigiliis multis, in fame et siti, in jejuniis multis, in frigore et nuditate,
28Besides those things which are without: my daily instance, the solicitude for all the churches.
28præter illa quæ extrinsecus sunt, instantia mea quotidiana, sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum.
29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not on fire?
29Quis infirmatur, et ego non infirmor? quis scandalizatur, et ego non uror?
30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my infirmity.
30Si gloriari oportet, quæ infirmitatis meæ sunt, gloriabor.
31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever, knoweth that I lie not.
31Deus et Pater Domini nostri Jesu Christi, qui est benedictus in sæcula, scit quod non mentior.
32At Damascus, the governor of the nation under Aretas the king, guarded the city of the Damascenes, to apprehend me.
32Damasci præpositus gentis Aretæ regis custodiebat civitatem Damascenorum ut me comprehenderet:
33And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and so escaped his hands.
33et per fenestram in sporta dimissus sum per murum, et sic effugi manus ejus.
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