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Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
St. Paul wrote this Epistle to the Christians in Palestine, the mostpart of whom being Jews before their conversion, they were calledHebrews. He exhorts them to be thoroughly converted and confirmed in thefaith of Christ, clearly shewing them the preeminence of Christ'spriesthood above the Levitical, and also the excellence of the new lawabove the old. He commends faith by the example of the ancient fathers:and exhorts them to patience and perseverance and to remain in fraternalcharity. It appears from chap. 13 that this Epistle was written inItaly, and probably at Rome, about twenty-nine years after our Lord'sAscension.
Hebrews Chapter 1
God spoke of old by the prophets, but now by his Son, who isincomparably greater than the angels.
1:1. God, who, at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in timespast to the fathers by the prophets, last of all,
1:2. In these days, hath spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointedheir of all things, by whom also he made the world.
1:3. Who being the brightness of his glory and the figure of hissubstance and upholding all things by the word of his power, makingpurgation of sins, sitteth on the right hand of the majesty on high:
The figure… that is, the express image, and most perfect resemblance.
Making purgation… That is, having purged away our sins by his passion.
1:4. Being made so much better than the angels as he hath inherited amore excellent name than they.
1:5. For to which of the angels hath he said at any time: Thou art mySon, to-day have I begotten thee? And again: I will be to him a Father,and he shall be to me a Son?
1:6. And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world,he saith: And let all the angels of God adore him.
1:7. And to the angels indeed he saith: He that maketh his angelsspirits and his ministers a flame of fire.
1:8. But to the Son: Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptreof justice is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
1:9. Thou hast loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God,hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
1:10. And: Thou in the beginning, O Lord, didst found the earth: and theworks of thy hands are the heavens.
1:11. They shall perish: but thou shalt continue: and they shall allgrow old as a garment.
1:12. And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shalt bechanged. But thou art the selfsame: and thy years shall not fail.
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