Hebræos 12
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
World English Bible
1Ideoque et nos tantam habentes impositam nubem testium, deponentes omne pondus, et circumstans nos peccatum, per patientiam curramus ad propositum nobis certamen:
1Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
2aspicientes in auctorem fidei, et consummatorem Jesum, qui proposito sibi gaudio sustinuit crucem, confusione contempta, atque in dextera sedis Dei sedet.
2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3Recogitate enim eum qui talem sustinuit a peccatoribus adversum semetipsum contradictionem: ut ne fatigemini, animis vestris deficientes.
3For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
4Nondum enim usque ad sanguinem restitistis, adversus peccatum repugnantes:
4You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
5et obliti estis consolationis, quæ vobis tamquam filiis loquitur, dicens: Fili mi, noli negligere disciplinam Domini: neque fatigeris dum ab eo argueris.
5You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
6Quem enim diligit Dominus, castigat: flagellat autem omnem filium, quem recipit.
6for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
7In disciplina perseverate. Tamquam filiis vobis offert se Deus: quis enim filius, quem non corripit pater?
7It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?
8quod si extra disciplinam estis, cujus participes facti sunt omnes: ergo adulteri, et non filii estis.
8But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.
9Deinde patres quidem carnis nostræ, eruditores habuimus, et reverebamur eos, non multo magis obtemperabimus Patri spirituum, et vivemus?
9Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
10Et illi quidem in tempore paucorum dierum, secundum voluntatem suam erudiebant nos: hic autem ad id quod utile est in recipiendo sanctificationem ejus.
10For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
11Omnis autem disciplina in præsenti quidem videtur non esse gaudii, sed mœroris: postea autem fructum pacatissimum exercitatis per eam, reddet justitiæ.
11All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
12Propter quod remissas manus, et soluta genua erigite,
12Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
13et gressus rectos facite pedibus vestris: ut non claudicans quis erret, magis autem sanetur.
13and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
14Pacem sequimini cum omnibus, et sanctimoniam, sine qua nemo videbit Deum:
14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
15contemplantes nequis desit gratiæ Dei: ne qua radix amaritudinis sursum germinans impediat, et per illam inquinentur multi.
15looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,
16Ne quis fornicator, aut profanus ut Esau: qui propter unam escam vendidit primitiva sua:
16lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
17scitote enim quoniam et postea cupiens hæreditare benedictionem, reprobatus est: non enim invenit pœnitentiæ locum, quamquam cum lacrimis inquisisset eam.
17For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
18Non enim accessistis ad tractabilem montem, et accensibilem ignem, et turbinem, et caliginem, et procellam,
18For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
19et tubæ sonum, et vocem verborum, quam qui audierunt, excusaverunt se, ne eis fieret verbum.
19the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,
20Non enim portabant quod dicebatur: Et si bestia tetigerit montem, lapidabitur.
20for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”.
21Et ita terribile erat quod videbatur. Moyses dixit: Exterritus sum, et tremebundus.
21So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”
22Sed accessistis ad Sion montem, et civitatem Dei viventis, Jerusalem cælestem, et multorum millium angelorum frequentiam,
22But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
23et ecclesiam primitivorum, qui conscripti sunt in cælis, et judicem omnium Deum, et spiritus justorum perfectorum,
23to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24et testamenti novi mediatorem Jesum, et sanguinis aspersionem melius loquentem quam Abel.
24to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
25Videte ne recusetis loquentem. Si enim illi non effugerunt, recusantes eum, qui super terram loquebatur: multo magis nos, qui de cælis loquentem nobis avertimus.
25See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
26Cujus vox movit terram tunc: nunc autem repromittit, dicens: Adhuc semel, et ego movebo non solum terram, sed et cælum.
26whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”
27Quod autem, Adhuc semel, dicit: declarat mobilium translationem tamquam factorum, ut maneant ea quæ sunt immobilia.
27This phrase, “Yet once more” signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
28Itaque regnum immobile suscipientes, habemus gratiam: per quam serviamus placentes Deo, cum metu et reverentia.
28Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
29Etenim Deus noster ignis consumens est.
29for our God is a consuming fire.
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