THE

NEW TESTAMENT

OF OUR

LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST,

TRANSLATED FROM THE

LATIN VULGATE:

DILIGENTLY COMPARED WITH THE ORIGINAL GREEK:

AND FIRST PUBLISHED BY

THE ENGLISH COLLEGE AT RHEIMS, A. D. 1582.

WITH

ANNOTATIONS, REFERENCES,

AND

AN HISTORICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX.

FROM THE LAST LONDON AND DUBLIN EDITIONS.

PUBLISHED WITH THE APPROBATION OF THE RIGHT REVEREND JOHN HUGHES, D. D.,

BISHOP OF NEW YORK.

NEW YORK:

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THE SUM OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.

THAT which was the sum of the Old Testament, to wit, Christ and his Church, as St. Augustin saith, catechising the ignorant: the very same is the sumof the New Testament also. For, (as the same St. Augustin Baith again) in the Old Testament there is the occulation of the New; and in the New Testament there is the manifestation of the Old. And, in another place: In the Old doth the New lie hidden, and in the New doth the Old lie open. And whereupon our Saviour said: I am not come to break the law or the prophets, but to fulf them. For, assuredly I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled. In which words he sheweth plainly, that the New Testament is nothing else but the fulfilling of the Old.

Therefore, to come to the parts: The Gospels do tell of Christ himself, (of whom the Old Testament did foretell,) and that even from his coming into the world, unto his going out thereof again. The Acts of the Apostles do tell of his Church beginning at Jerusalem, the head city of the Jews, and of the propagation thereof to the Gentiles, and their head city Rome. And the Apocalypse doth prophesy it, even to the consummation thereof which shall be in the end of the world. The Epistles of the Apostles do treat partly of such questions as at tha time were moved, partly of good life and good order.

THE SUM OF THE FOUR GOSPELS.

THE Gospels do tell historically the life of our Lord Jesus; shewing plainly, (Jo. xx. 31) that he is Chris or the King of the Jews, whom until then, all the time of the Old Testament, they had expected; and withal that they of their own mere malice and blindness, (the iniquity beginning of the Seniors, but at length the multitude also consenting,) would not receive him, but also sought his death; which, for the redemt tion of the world, he at length permitted them to compass, they deserving thereby most justly to be refused of him, and 90 his Kingdom or Church to be taken away from them, and given to the Gentiles. For the gathering of whien Church, after he chooseth twelve, and appointed one of them to be the chief of all, with instructions both to them and him accordingly.

The story hereof is written by four; who, in Ezekiel and in the Apocalypse, are likened to four living crea tures, every one according as his book beginneth. St. Matthew to a man, because he beginneth with the pedigree of Christ as he is a man. St. Mark to a Lion, because he beginneth with the preaching of St. John the Bapust as it were to the roaring of a Lion in the wilderness. St. Luke to a calf, because he beginneth with a priest of the Old Testament, (to wit, Zachary the father of St. John the Baptist,) which priesthood was to sacrifice Calves to God. St. John, to an Eagle, because he beginneth with the Divinity of Christ, flying so high, as more is not possible.

The first three do report at large what Christ did in Galilee, after the imprisonment of St. John the Baptist. Wherefore St. John the Evangelist writing after them all, doth omit his doings in Galile: (ave only one, which they had not written of, the wonderful bread which he told the Capharnites he could and would give them, Jo. 6.) and reporteth, first what he did whilst John Baptist as yet was preaching and baptizing; then after John's imprisoning, what he did in Jewry every year about Easter. But of his passion, all four do write at large.

Where it is to be noted that from his baptizing (which is thought to have been upon Twelfth-day, what time he was beginning to be about thirty years old, Luke 3.) unto his passion are numbered three months and three years, in which there were also four Easters

754

THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST,

ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW.

St. Matthew, one of the twelve Apostles, who from being a publican, that is, a tax-gatherer, was called by our
Saviour to the Apostleship; in that profession his name was Levi: (Luke, v. 27, and Mark, ch. 2. v. 14.) He
was the first of the Evangelists that wrote the Gospel, and that in Hebrew, or Syro-Chaldaic, which the Jews
in Palestine spoke at that time. The original is not now extant, but as it was translated in the time of the
Apostles into Greek, that version was of equal authority. He wrote about six years after our Lord's Ascension.
CHAP. I.
of Babylon to Christ, are fourteen generations.
18 Now the generation of CHRIST was in this
wise. When as his mother Mary was es-
poused to Joseph, before they came together,
she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost.
19 Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a
just man, and not willing publicly to expose
her, was minded to put her away privately.
20 But while he thought on these things, be-
hold the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in
his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear
not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that
which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost.
21 And she shall bring forth a son: and thou
shalt call his name JESUS. For he shall save
his people from their sins.

22' Now all this was done that it might be ful-
filled which the Lord spoke by the prophet,
saying:

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The genealogy of Christ: he is conceived and born of
a virgin.
THE
HE book of the generation of JESUS CHRIST,
the son of David, the son of Abraham:
2 Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac begot
Jacob. And Jacob begot Judas and his brethren.
3 And Judas begot Pharas and Zaras of
Thamar. And Phares begot Esron. And
Esron begot Aram.

4 And Aram begot Aminadab. And Aminadab
begot Naasson. And Naasson begot Salmon.
5 And Salmon begot Booz of Rahab. And
Booz begot Obed of Ruth. And Obed begot

Jesse.

And

6 And Jesse begot David the king. David the king begot Solomon, of her that had been the wife of Urias.

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7 And Solomon begot Roboam. And "Roboam begot Abia. And Abia begot Asa. 8 And Asa begot Josaphat. And Josaphat begot Joram. And Joram begot Ozias. 9 And Ozias begot Joatham. And Joatham begot Achaz. And Achaz begot Ezechias. 10 And Ezechias begot Manasses. And Manasses begot Amon. And Amon begot Josias. 11 And Josias begot Jechonias and his brethren in the transmigration of Babylon.

12 And after the transmigration of Babylon, Jochonias begot Salathiel. And Salathiel begot Zorobabel.

13 And Zorobabel begot Abiud. And Abiud

begot Eliacim. And Eliacim begot Azor.

14 And Azor begot Sadoc. And Sadoc begot Achim. And Achim begot Eliud.

15 And Eliud begot Eleazar. And Eleazar begot Mathan. And Mathan begot Jacob.

16 And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born JEsus, who is called CHRIST.

23 Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

24 And Joseph rising up from sleep, did as the Angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took unto him his wife.

25 And he knew her not till she brought forth
her first-born son: and he called his name JESUS.
CHAP. II.

The offerings of the wise men: the flight into Egypt:
the massacre of the innocents.

2 Par. 33. 25.-2 Par. 36. 18.- Luke. 1. 27. Luke, 1. 31. Acts, 4. 12.-bb 1. 7. 11.- A M. 4000. Being four years before the common account called Anno Domini. Luke, 2. 7.

WHEN JESUS therefore was born in Beth-
lehem of Juda, in the days of king He-
rod, behold, there came wise men from the
East to Jerusalem,

2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East, and are come to adore him.

3 And king Herod hearing this, was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

17 So all the generations from Abraham to 4 And assembling together all the chief priests
David, are fourteen generations. And from Da- and the Scribes of the people, he inquired of
vid to the transmigration of Babylon, are four-them where Christ should be born.
teen generations: and from the transinigration 5 But they said to him: In Bethlehem of

Luke, 3. 31. Gen. 21, 3.- Gen. 25. 25. Gen. 29. 35.-future: Thus it is said, Gen. ch. 8. v. 6. and 7. That
Gen. 33. 29. 1 Par. 2. 4.- Ruth, 4. 18. 1 Par. 2. 5. Num. 7. Noe sent forth a raren, which went forth, and did not

12. Ruth, 4. 22. 1 Kin. 16. 1.-k 2 Kin. 12. 24.- 3 Kin.

11. 43.3 Kin. 11. 31. 3 Kin. 15. 8.- 2 Par. 26. 23. 2 return TILL the waters were dried up on the earth. That
Par. 27. 9.- 2 Par. 23. 27. 2 Par. 32. 33.2 Par. 33. 25-is, did not return any more. Also Isaias, ch. 46. v. 4.
God says: I am TILL you grow old. Who dare infer that
God should then cease to be? Also in the first book of
Machabees, ver. 54. And they went up to mount Sion
Ch. 1. v. 16. The husband of Mary. The evangelist with joy, and gladness, and offered holocausts, because
gives us rather the pedigree of St. Joseph, than that of not one of them was slain till they had returned in
the blessed Virgin, to conform to the custom of the He-peace. That is, not one was slain, before or after they
brews, who in their genealogies took no notice of women: had returned.-God saith to his divine Son: Sit on my
but as they were near akin, the pedigree of the one right hand TILL I make thy enemies thy footstool. Shall
sheweth that of the other.
he sit no longer after his enemies are subdued? Yea and
Ver. 25. Till she brought forth her first-born son. From for all eternity. St. Jerom also proves by Scripture
these words Helvidius and other heretics most impiously examples, that an only begotten son, was also called
inferred that the blessed Virgin Mary had other children first-born, or first begotten: because according to the
besides Christ: but St Jerom shews, by divers examples, law, the first-born males were to be consecrated to God:
that this expression of the Evangelist was a manner of Sanctify unto me, saith the Lord, every first-born that
speaking usual among the Hebrews, to denote by the openeth the womb among the children of Israel, &c.
word until, only what is done, without any regard to the Erod. chap. 13. ver. 2.

Juda. For so it is written by the prophet: 23 And coming he dwelt in a city called Naza6 And thou Bethlehem the land of Juda art reth: that it might be fulfilled which was said by not the least among the princes of Juda: for the prophets: That he shall be called a Nazarite. out of thee shall come forth the captain that shall rule my people Israel.

CHAP. III.

7 Then Herod privately calling the wise men learned diligently of them the time of the star which appeared to them.

8 And sending them into Bethlehem, said: Go, and diligently inquire after the child, and when you have found him; bring me word again, that I also may come and adore him. 9 Who having heard the king, went their way; and behold the star which they had seen in the East, went before them, until it came and stood over where the child was.

10 And seeing the star they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.

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11 And entering into the house, they found the child with Mary his mother, and falling down they adored him; and opening their treasures, they offered him gifts; gold, frankincense and myrrh.

12 And having received an answer in sleep that they should not return to Herod, they went back another way into their own country. 13 And after they were departed, behold an Angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph, saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and fly into Egypt: and be there until I shall tell thee. For it will come to pass that Herod will seek the child to destroy him. 14 Who arose, and took the child and his mother by night, and retired into Egypt: and he was there until the death of Herod:

16 Then Herod perceiving that he was deluded by the wise men, was exceeding angry; and sending killed all the men-children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, saying:

18 Ad voice in Rama was heard, lamentation and great mourning: Rachel bewailing her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

19 But when Herod was dead, behold an Angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph in Egypt,

The preaching of John: Christ is baptized.

in those

cometh John the

tist preaching in the desert of Judea. 2 And saying: 'Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

3 For this is he that was spoken of by Isaias the prophet, saying: A voice of one crying in the desert, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.

4 And the same John had his garment of camels' hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the country about Jordan: 6 And were baptized by him in the Jordan confessing their sins.

7 And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?

8 Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance. 9 And think not to say within yourselves. *We have Abraham for our father. For I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

10 For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire.

11 I indeed baptize you in water unto penance, but he that shall come after me, is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear, he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire. 12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly cleanse his floor: and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

13 Then "cometh JESUS from Galilee to the Jordan, unto John, to be baptized by him. 14 But "John stayed him, saying: I ought to be baptized by thee, and comest thou to me? 15 And JESUS answering, said to him: Suffer it to be so now. For so it becometh us to fulfil all justice. Then he suffered him.

16 And JESUS being baptized, forthwith came out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened to him: and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him. 17 And behold a voice from heaven, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

CHAP. IV.

20 Saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel. For they are dead that sought the life of the child. Christ's fast of forty days: he is tempted. He begins 21 Who arose, and took the child and his to preach, to call disciples to him, and to work mirades. mother, and came into the land of Israel.

dea in the room of Herod his father, he was afraid to go thither: and being warned in sleep retired into the quarters of Galilee.

22 But hearing that Archelaus reigned in Ju-THEN JESUS was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

Mich. 5. 2. John, 7. 42.-b Ps. 71. 10,- Os. 11.-d Jer. 31. 15. A. D. 28.- Mark, 1. 4. Luke, 3. 3.- Isa. 40. 3 Mark, 1.3. Luke, 3. 4.- Mark, 1. 5.- Luke, 3. 7.-k John, 8. 39. 1 Mark, 1. 8. Luke, 3. 16. John, 1. 26. Acts, 1. 5.- Mark, 1. 9. -A. D. 30.- Luke, 3. 22.-P Luke, 9. 35. 2 Pet. 1. 17.- A. D. 30. Mark, 1. 11. Luke, 4. 1.

3 And the tempter coming said to him: If thou the holy fathers, does not only signify repentance and amendment of life, but also punishing past sins by fasting, and such like penitential exercises,

Ver. 7. Pharisees and Sadducees. These were two sects among the Jews: of which the former were for the most part notorious hypocrites; the latter a kind of thinkers in matters of religion.

Ch. 3. v. 2. Do penance. Pœnitentiam agite, ucravocre. Which word, according to the use of the scriptures aplle

be the Son of God, command that these stones were taken with divers diseases and torments, be made bread. and such as were possessed by devils and lu 4 Who answered and said: It is written, Not natics, and those that had the palsy, and he in bread alone doth man live, but in every word cured them: that proceedeth from the mouth of God. 5 Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him upon the pinnacle of the temple, 6 And said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written: That he hath given his Angels charge over thee, and in their hands shall they bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone.

25 And much people followed him from Ga lilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond the Jordan. CHAP. V.

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7 JESUS said to him. It is written, again: Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. 8 Again the devil took him up into a very high mountain: and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them. 9 And said to him: All these will I give thee, if falling down thou wilt adore me.

10 Then JESUS saith to him: Be gone, satan: for it is written, The Lord thy God shalt thou adore, and him only shalt thou serve.

Christ's sermon upon the mount. The eight beatitudes.
AND seeing the multitudes, he went up into

a mountain, and when he was set
his disciples came unto him.

2 And opening his mouth he taught them, say ing:

3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

4 Blessed are the meek: for they shall pos sess the land.

5 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

6 Blessed are they that hunger and thirst afted justice: for they shall have their fill. An-7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

8 Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God.

11 Then the devil left him; and behold gels came and ministered to him.

12 And when JESUS had heard that John was delivered up, he retired into Galilee:

13 And leaving the city Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capharnaum on the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and of Nephthalim;

14 That it might be fulfilled which was said by Isaias the prophet:

15 Land of Zabulon and land of Nephthalim, the way of the sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the gentiles:

16 The people that sat in darkness, hath seen great light: and to them that sat in the region of the shadow of death, light is sprung up. 17 From that time JESUS began to preach, and to say: Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

18 And JESUS walking by the sea of Galilee, saw hwo brethren, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishers.)

19 And he saith to them: Come ye after me, and I will make you to be fishers of men. 20 And they immediately leaving their nets, followed him.

Deut. 8 3. Luke, 4. 4.- Ps. 90. 11.- Deut. 6. 16.- Deut. 6. 13. Mark, 1. 14. Luke, 4. 14. John, 4. 43.-f Isa. 9. 1. Mark, 1. 15.- Mark, 1. 16. Luke, 5. 2. Mark, 3. 7. Luke, 6. 17. A. D. 31. Luke, 6. 20. Ps. 36. 11. Isa. 61. 2. - Ps. 23. 4.—P 1 Pet. 2. 29. & 3. 14. & 4. 14.- Mark, 9. 49.

Luke, 14. 34. Mark, 4. 21. Luke, 8. 16. & 11. 33.- 1 Pet. 2

12. Luke, 16. 17.- Jam. 2. 10.

9 Blessed are the peace-makers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Ch. 4. v. 8. Sherred him, &c. That is, pointed out to him, where each kingdom lay; and set forth in words what was most glorious and admirable in each of them. Or also set before his eyes, as it were in a large

10 Blessed rare they that suffer persecution for justice sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil

nst you, untruly, for my sake;

12 Be glad and rejoice, for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you. 13 You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing any more but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men.

14 You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid.

21 And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets: and he called them. 18 Foramen I say unto you, till heaven and 22 And they forthwith left their nets and fa-earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass ther, and followed him. of the law, till all be fulfilled.

23 And JESUS went about all Galilee, teaching 19 He therefore that shall break one of these in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel least commandments, and shall so teach men, of the kingdom: and healing all manner of sick-shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaness and every infirmity, among the people. ven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall 24 And his fame went throughout all Syria, be called great in the kingdom of heaven. and they presented to him all sick people that 20 For I tell you, that unless your justice

15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house.

16 So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

17 Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.