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PREFACE. 
 
 The chief aim of this Book is to contribute something, how- 
 soever little, to the great work of popularizing the Sacred 
 Scriptures. To this end, all of the more important and inter- 
 esting passages are here presented, iapart from their less attract- 
 ive surroundings, while the text, though losing nothing of its 
 original simplicity, is reduced, for brevity's sake, to the merest 
 narrative. The volume is designed to accommodate at least 
 three classes of persons, viz : Catechists, students in a general 
 wa}^ of the Holy Bible, and Preachers of the Word of God. 
 
 Experience amply proves that in the Academy, and Paro- 
 chial, as well as in the Sunday school, the ideal Teacher of 
 Christian Doctrine must be equally ready to instruct and to 
 entertain. The natural passion of children for stories should 
 be so utilized that the story become the vehicle of truth. Doc- 
 trine thus imparted is grasped more easily and more eagerly 
 and is longer remembered. The only diflSculty in this method 
 is, that it taxes so severely the inventive genius of the Teacher 
 that the " Sunday school story " is usually either entirely irrel- 
 evant, or so utterl}^ devoid of point and truth as to have become 
 a byword and a reproach. Here then is an opportunity to dif- 
 fuse a knowledge of the Bible by means of these charming little 
 histories that foreshadow or assert or beautifull}^ illustrate the 
 chief truths of our Religion. 
 
 It is a deplorable fact that to ver}^ many of our people the 
 Holy Scriptures are a sealed Book, and the Life of Christ, a 
 mass of events confused and vague. Howsoever eager they 
 may be to learn, the ponderous family Bible is a powerful dis- 
 couragement to personal research. The result is that in ser- 
 
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4 PREFACE, 
 
 mons and instructions allusions are being constantly made 
 which are lost on the hearers, and the broad and firm founda- 
 tions of our Religion in Holy Writ are rarely appreciated. 
 Protestants, too, already fairly conversant with the Scriptures, 
 and desirous of becoming Catholics, are strongly impressed on 
 finding that, as the two Cherubim gazed ever one upon the 
 other and joined their wings over the Ark of the Covenant, so 
 the two Testaments reflect each other and find their natural 
 centre in the Catholic Church. 
 
 It is hoped also that this volume may prove convenient in the 
 Pulpit. A striking text or pertinent story often serves to rouse 
 the flagging interest of a congregation. " Search the Scrip- 
 tures," says the Apostle, " for every Scripture inspired of God 
 is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in jus- 
 tice, that the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every 
 good work." The Compiler. 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 LESSON FIRST. 
 
 ON THE END OF MAN. 
 
 Q. "Who made the world ? 
 
 (Acts 17 : 27.) God made 
 the world, and all things there- 
 in, and being Lord of heaven 
 and earth He dwelleth not in 
 temples made with hands. 
 
 Q. ^Who is God ? 
 
 (Acts 14: 14. A.M.I.) God 
 made the heaven, and the earth, 
 and the sea, and all things that 
 are in them, upholding all 
 things by the word of his pow- 
 er. It is God who worketh in 
 you, both to will and to accom- 
 plish. He is the Alpha and 
 Omega, the first and the last, 
 the beginning and the end. 
 
 (Ex. 3: 14-15. A. M. 2513.) 
 God said to Moses : I am who 
 AM. He said: Thus shalt thou 
 say to the children of Israel : He 
 WHO IS, hath sent me to you. 
 And God said again to Moses : 
 Thus shalt thou say to the 
 children of Israel : The Lord 
 God of your fathers, the God 
 of Abraham, the God of Isaac, 
 and the God of Jacob, hath sent 
 me to you : This is my name for 
 
 ever, and this is my memorial 
 unto all generations. 
 
 (Ex. 6: 2-3.) And the Lord 
 spoke to Moses, saying : I am 
 the Lord, that appeared to 
 Abraham, to Isaac, and to Ja- 
 cob, by the name of God Al- 
 mighty ; and my name Adonai 
 I did not shew them. 
 
 Q. What is man? 
 
 (Gen. 2: 7. A. M. 1.) The 
 Lord God formed man of the 
 slime of the earth : and 
 breathed into his face the breath 
 of life, and man became a liv- 
 ing^ soul. 
 
 ^(Gen. 1 : 27.) And God created 
 man to his own image: to the 
 image of God he created him : 
 male and female he created 
 them. 
 
 (Job 14 : 1-2.) Man born of 
 a woman, living for a short 
 time, is filled with many mis- 
 eries. Who Cometh forth like 
 a flower, and is destroyed, and 
 fleeth as a shadow, and never 
 continueth in the same state. 
 
 (Job 14 : 10-12.) But man 
 (5) 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 when he shall be dead, and 
 stripped and consumed, I pray 
 3^ou where is he ? As if the 
 waters should depart out of the 
 sea, and an emptied river 
 should be dried up : so man 
 when he is fallen asleep shall 
 not rise again till the heavens 
 be broken. 
 
 (Job 19: 25-27.) But I know 
 that my Redeemer liveth, and 
 in the last day I shall rise out 
 of the earth. And I shall be 
 clothed again with my skin, 
 and in m}^ flesh I shall see my 
 God. Whom I myself shall 
 see, and my eyes shall behold, 
 and not another : this my hope 
 is laid up in my bosom. 
 
 Q. Is this likeness in the 
 body or in the soul ? 
 
 (Gen. 1 : 26.) God saw that 
 it was good. And he said : 
 Let us make man to our image 
 and likeness. 
 
 Q. How is the soul like to 
 God? 
 
 (Wisd. 2 : 23.) God created 
 man incorruptible, and to the 
 image of his own likeness he 
 made him. 
 
 Q. "Why did G-od make you ? 
 
 See "L. of C.,"p. 76, No. 18. 
 
 (Rom. 9: 18-23.) He hath 
 mercy on whom he will ; and 
 whom he will, he hardeneth. 
 Thou wilt say therefore to me : 
 Why doth he then find fault? 
 for who resisteth his will ? 
 man, who art thou that repliest 
 against God ? Shall the thing 
 formed say to him that formed 
 
 it : Why hast thou made me 
 thus? Or hath not the potter 
 power over the c^y, of the 
 same lump, to make one vessel 
 unto honour, and another unto 
 dishonour? What if God, will- 
 ing to shew his wrath, and to 
 make his power known, endured 
 with much patience vessels of 
 wrath, fitted for destruction. 
 That he might shew the riches 
 of his glory on the vessels of 
 mercy, which he hath prepared 
 unto glory ? 
 
 (Deut. 10: 12-14.) And now, 
 Israel, what doth the Lord thy 
 God require of thee, but that 
 thou fear the Lord thy God, and 
 walk in his waj's, and love him, 
 and serve the Lord thy God, 
 with all thy heart, and with all 
 thy soul: and keep the com- 
 mandments of the Lord, and 
 his ceremonies, which I com- 
 mand thee this day, that it 
 may be well with thee ? Be- 
 hold heaven is the Lord's thy 
 God, and the heaven of heaven, 
 the earth and all things that 
 are therein. 
 
 Q. Of -which must -we take 
 more care, our soul or our 
 body? 
 
 See "L. ofC.,"p. 50, :No. 11; p. 65, No. 28. 
 
 (Jer. 17: 5-8.) Thus saith 
 the Lord: Cursed be the man 
 that trusteth in man, and mak- 
 eth flesh his arm, and whose 
 heart departeth from the Lord. 
 For he shall be like tamaric in 
 the desert, and he shall not see 
 when good shall come : but he 
 shall dwell in dryness in the 
 desert in a salt land, and not 
 
CATECHISM, 
 
 inhabited. Blessed be the man 
 that trusteth in the Lord, and 
 the Lord shall be his confi- 
 dence. And he shall be as a 
 tree that is planted by the wa- 
 ters, that spreadeth out its roots 
 towards moisture : and it shall 
 not fear when the heat cometh. 
 And the leaf thereof shall be 
 green, and in the time of 
 drought it shall not be solici- 
 tous, neither shall it cease at 
 any time to bring forth fruit. 
 
 Q. Why must -we take more 
 care of our soul than of our 
 body ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 87, No. 19. 
 
 (Jer. 18: 1-10.) The word 
 that came to Jeremias from the 
 Lord, sa3'ing : Arise, and go 
 down into the potter's house, 
 and there thou shalt hear my 
 words. And I went down into 
 the potter's house, and behold 
 he was doing a work on the 
 wheel. And the vessel was 
 broken which he was making 
 of clay with his hands : and 
 turning he made another vessel, 
 as it seemed good in his eyes to 
 make it. Then the word of the 
 Lord came to me, saying : Can- 
 not I do with you, as this pot- 
 ter, O house of Israel, saith the 
 Lord ? behold as clay is in the 
 hand of the potter, so are you 
 in my hand, house of Israel. 
 I will suddenly speak against a 
 nation, and against a kingdom, 
 to root out, and to pull down, 
 and to destroy it. If that 
 nation against which I have 
 spoken, shall repent of their 
 evil, I also will repent of the 
 
 evil that I have thought to do 
 to them. And I will suddenly 
 speak of a nation and of a king- 
 dom, to build up and plant it. 
 If it shall do evil in my sight, 
 that it obey not my voice : I 
 will repent of the good that I 
 have spoken to do unto it. 
 
 (Jer. 19: 1, 10-11.) Thus 
 said the Lord : Go, and take a 
 potter's earthen bottle, and take 
 of the ancients of the people, 
 and of the ancients of the 
 priests : and thou shalt break 
 the bottle in the sight of the 
 men that shall go with thee. 
 And thou shalt say to them : 
 Thus saith the Lord of hosts : 
 Even so will I break this peo- 
 ple, and this city, as the pot- 
 ter's vessel is broken, which 
 cannot be made whole again. 
 
 Q. "What must we do to save 
 our souls ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 55, No. 7 ; p. 81, No. 7. 
 
 (2 Esdras 4: 16-20. A.M.3550.) 
 Now it came to pass from that 
 day forward, that half of their 
 young men did the work, and 
 half were ready for to fight, with 
 spears, and shields, and bows, 
 and coats of mail, and the rul- 
 ers w^ere behind them in all the 
 house of Juda. Of them that 
 built on the wall and that car- 
 ried burdens, and that laded: 
 with one of his hands he did 
 the work, and with the other 
 he held a sword. For every 
 one of the builders w^as girded 
 with a sword about his reins. 
 And they built, and sounded 
 w^ith a trumpet by me. And I 
 said to the nobles, and to the 
 
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 magistrates, and to the rest of 
 the common people : The work 
 is great and wide, and we are 
 separated on the wall one far 
 from another : in what place 
 soever you shall hear the sound 
 of the trumpet, run all thither 
 unto us : our God will fight for 
 us. 
 
 (Num. 32: 1-7. A. M. 2553.) 
 Now the sons of Ruben and 
 Gad had many flocks of cattle, 
 and their substance in beasts 
 was infinite. And when they 
 saw the lands of Jazer and 
 Galaad fit for feeding cattle, 
 they came to Moses and Elea- 
 zar the priest, and the princes 
 of the multitude, and said : We 
 pray thee, if we have found fa- 
 vour in thy sight, that thou 
 give it to us thy servants in 
 possession, and make us not 
 pass over the Jordan. And 
 Moses answered them : What, 
 shall your brethren go to fight, 
 and will you sit here? Why 
 do ye overturn the minds of 
 the children of Israel, that they 
 may not dare to pass into the 
 place which the Lord hath given 
 them ? 
 
 (III. King 6 : 7.) Now the 
 house, when it was in build- 
 ing, was built of stones hewed 
 and made ready : so that there 
 was neither hammer nor axe 
 nor any tool of iron heard in 
 the house when it was in build- 
 ing. 
 
 Q. Ho"w shall -we know the 
 things which we are to be- 
 lieve ? 
 
 (Luke 10 : 16.) He that hear- 
 eth you, heareth me; and he 
 that despiseth you, despiseth 
 me ; and he that despiseth me, 
 despiseth him that sent me. 
 
 (II. Tim. 3.) But continue 
 thou in those things which thou 
 hast learned, and which have 
 been committed to thee : know- 
 ing of whom thou hast learned 
 them; and because from th}^ 
 infancy thou hast known the 
 holy scriptures, which can in- 
 struct thee to salvation, by the 
 faith which is in Christ Jesus. 
 All scripture, inspired of God, 
 is profitable to teach, to re- 
 prove, to correct, to instruct in 
 justice, that the man of God 
 may be perfect furnished to 
 every good work. 
 
 (Mic. 4.) It shall come to 
 pass in the last days that the 
 mountain of the house of the 
 Lord shall be prepared in the 
 top of mountains, and high 
 above the hills : and people 
 shall flow to it. And many na- 
 tions shall come in haste and 
 say : Come, let us go up to the 
 mountain of the Lord, and to 
 the house of the God of Jacob : 
 and he will teach us of his ways, 
 and we will walk in his paths : 
 for the law shall go forth out of 
 Sion, and the word of the Lord 
 out of Jerusalem. 
 
CATECmS3f. 
 LESSON SECOND. 
 
 9 
 
 ON GOD AND HIS PERFECTIONS. 
 
 Q. "What is God? 
 
 (Heb. 12.) Our God is a 
 consuming fire. 
 
 (Wisd. 13.) All men are 
 vain, in whom there is not the 
 knowledge of God : and who by 
 these good things that are seen, 
 could not understand him that 
 is, neither by attending to the 
 works have acknowledged who 
 was the workman ; but have 
 imagined either the fire, or the 
 wind, or the swift air, or the 
 circle of the stars, or the great 
 water, or the sun and moon, to 
 be the gods that rule the world. 
 With whose beauty if they 
 being delighted, took them to 
 be gods : let them know how 
 much the Lord of them is more 
 beautiful than they : for the 
 first author of beauty made all 
 those things. Or if they ad- 
 mired their power and their ef- 
 fects, let them understand by 
 them, that he that made them, 
 is mightier than they : for by 
 the greatness of the beauty, and 
 of the creature, the creator of 
 them may be seen, so as to be 
 known thereby. 
 
 Q. Had God a beginning ? 
 
 See "L. of C.,"p. 60, No. 19. 
 
 (Apoc. 1.) I am Alpha and 
 Omega, the beginning and the 
 end, saith the Lord God, who 
 is, and who was, and who is to 
 come, the Almighty. 
 
 Q. "Where is God ? 
 
 (Ps. 138.) Whither shall I 
 
 go from thy spirit ? or whither 
 shall I flee from thy face ? If 
 I ascend into heaven, thou art 
 there : if I descend into hell, 
 thou art present. If I take my 
 wings early in the morning, 
 and dwell in the uttermost 
 parts of the sea : even there 
 also shall thy hand lead me : 
 and thy right hand shall hold 
 me. And I said : Perhaps 
 darkness shall cover me : and 
 night shall be my light in my 
 pleasures. But darkness shall 
 not be dark to thee, and night 
 shall be light as the day : the 
 darkness thereof, and the light 
 thereof are alike to thee. 
 
 Q. If God is every wherej-why 
 do 'we not see Him ? 
 
 (I. Tim. 1.) Now to the king 
 of ages, immortal, invisible, the 
 only God, be honour and glory 
 for ever and ever. Amen. 
 
 (I. Tim. 6.) Keep thou the 
 commandment without spot, 
 blameless, unto the coming of 
 our Lord Jesus Chr/st, which 
 in his times he shall shew who 
 is the Blessed and only Mighty, 
 the King of kings, and Lord of 
 lords ; who only hath immor- 
 tality, and inhabiteth light in- 
 accessible, whom no man hath 
 seen, nor can see : to whom be 
 honour and empire everlasting. 
 Amen. 
 
 Q. Does God see us ? 
 
 (Matt. 6.) I say to you, be 
 not solicitous for your life, what 
 
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 CATECHIS3I. 
 
 you shall eat, nor for your bodj- 
 what you shall put on. Is not 
 the life more than the meat : 
 and the body more than the 
 raiment ? Behold the birds of 
 the air, for tbey neither sow, 
 nor do they reap, nor gather 
 into barns : and your heavenly 
 Father feedeth them. Are not 
 you of much more value than 
 they? And which of you b}^ 
 taking thought, can add to his 
 stature one cubit ? And for 
 raiment why are you solicitous? 
 Consider the lilies of the field 
 how they grow : they labour 
 not, neither do they spin. But 
 I say to you, that not even Sol- 
 omon in all his glory was ar- 
 rayed as one of these. And if 
 the grass of the field, which is 
 to-day, and to-morrow is cast 
 into the oven, God doth so 
 clothe : how much more 3'ou, O 
 ye of little faith ? Be not solic- 
 itous therefore, saying. What 
 shall we eat : or what shall we 
 drink, or wherewith shall we be 
 clothed ? For after all these 
 things do the heathens seek. 
 For 3^our Father knoweth that 
 you have need of all these 
 things. 
 
 (Deut. 4.) Neither is there 
 any other nation so great, that 
 hath God so nigh them, as our 
 God is present to all our peti- 
 tions. 
 
 Q. Does Grod know all things ? 
 
 (Eccltus. 23.) Darkness com- 
 passeth me about, and the walls 
 cover me, and no man seeth me : 
 whom do I fear ? the most High 
 will not remember my sins. 
 
 And he understandeth not that 
 his eye seeth all things, for such 
 a man's fear driveth from him 
 the fear of God, and the eyes of 
 men fearing him : and he know- 
 eth not that the eyes of the 
 Lord are far brighter than the 
 sun, beholding round about all 
 the ways of men, and the bot- 
 tom of the deep, and looking 
 into the hearts of men, into the 
 most hidden parts. For all 
 things were known to the Lord 
 God, before they were created : 
 so also after they were perfected 
 he beholdeth all things. 
 
 Q. Can G-od do all things ? 
 
 See''L. of C.,"p.8, No. 4. 
 
 (Judith 15.) Adonai Lord, 
 great art thou, and glorious in 
 thy power, and no one can over- 
 come thee. Let all thy crea- 
 tures serve thee : because thou 
 hast spoken, and they were 
 made : thou didst send forth thy 
 Spirit, and they were created, 
 and there is no one that can re- 
 sist thy voice. 
 
 Q. Is Grod just, holy and mer- 
 ciful ? 
 
 (Job 34.) Ye men of under- 
 standing, hear me : far from 
 God be wickedness, and iniquit}^ 
 from the Almighty. For he 
 will render to a man his work, 
 and according to the ways of 
 every one he will reward them. 
 For in very deed God will not 
 condemn without cause, neither 
 will the Almighty pervert judg- 
 ment. The Lord is patient and 
 full of mercy. 
 
CATECHISM. 
 LESSON THIRD. 
 
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 ON THE UNITY AND TRINITY OF *GOD. 
 
 Q. Is there but one Grod ? 
 
 (Isa. 45.) I am the Lord, and 
 there is none else : there is no 
 God besides me. 
 
 Q. Why can there be but 
 one God ? 
 
 (Isa. 44.) I am the first, and 
 I am the last, and besides me 
 there is no God. Who is like 
 to me ? let him call and declare : 
 and let him set before me the 
 order since I appointed the 
 ancient people : and the things 
 to come, and that shall be here- 
 after, let them shew unto them. 
 
 Q. How many persons are 
 there in God ? 
 
 (I. John 5.) And there are 
 three who give testimony in 
 heaven, the Father, the Word, 
 and the Holy Ghost. And 
 these three are one. And there | 
 are three that give testimony | 
 on earth : the spirit, and the i 
 water, and the blood : and these 
 three are one. 
 
 Q. Is the Father God ? 
 
 (John 20 : IT.) I ascend to 
 My Father and to 3^onr Father, 
 to My God and your God. 
 
 Q. Is the Son God ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 59, No 15; p. 17, No. 1. 
 
 (Col. 1 : 12-20.) Give thanks 
 to God the Father, who hath 
 made us worthj^ to be partakers 
 of the lot of the saints in light, 
 who hath delivered us from the 
 power of darkness, and hath 
 translated us into the kingdom 
 
 of the Son of his love. In whom 
 we have redemption through 
 his blood, the remission of sins ; 
 who is the image of the invis- 
 ible God, the first-born of every 
 creature : for in him were all 
 things created in heaven and on 
 earth, visible and invisible, 
 whether thrones, or domina- 
 tions, or principalities, or pow- 
 ers : all things were created by 
 him and in him. And he is be- 
 fore all, and by him all things 
 consist. And he is the head of 
 the body, the church, who is 
 the beginning, the first-born 
 from the dead ; that in all 
 things he may hold the pri- 
 macy : because in him it hath 
 well-pleased the Father, that all 
 fulness should dwell ; and 
 through him to reconcile all 
 things unto himself, making 
 peace through the blood of his 
 cross, both as to the things that 
 are on earth, and the things 
 that are in heaven. 
 
 Q. Is the Holy Ghost God ? 
 
 (John 15.) When the Para- 
 clete Cometh, whom I will send 
 you from the Father, the Spirit 
 of truth, who proceedeth from 
 the Father, he shall give testi- 
 mony of me. 
 
 Q. "What do you mean by 
 the Blessed Trinity ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 106, No. 10. 
 
 Q. Are the three Divine Per- 
 sons equal in all things ? 
 See ''L. of C," p. 103, Ko. 3. 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 Q. Are the three Divine Per- 
 sons one and the same G-od ? 
 See '• L. ol C," p. 58, No. 14 ; o. 102, No. 1. 
 
 Q. Can "we fully understand 
 hoTV the three Divine Per- 
 sons are one and the same 
 God? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 53, No. 16. 
 
 (Rom. 11.) O the depth of 
 the riches of the wisdom and of 
 the knowledge of God! How 
 incomprehensible are his judg- 
 ments, and how unsearchable 
 his ways 1 For who hath known 
 the mind of the Lord ? Or who 
 hath been his counsellor ? Or 
 who hath first given to him, 
 and recompense shall be made 
 him ? For of him, and by him. 
 
 and in him, are all things: to 
 him be glory for ever. Amen. 
 
 Q. What is a mystery ? 
 
 We know in part, and we 
 prophesy in part. But when 
 that which is perfect is come, 
 that which is in part shall be 
 done away. When I was a 
 child, I spoke as a child, I un- 
 derstood as a child, I thought 
 as a child. But, when I became 
 a man, I put away the things 
 of a child. We see now through 
 a glass in a dark manner ; but 
 then face to face. Now I know 
 in part ; but then I shall know 
 even as I am known. 
 
 LESSON FOURTH. 
 
 ON CREATION. 
 
 Q. Who created heaven and 
 earth, and all things ? 
 
 (Gen. 1. A. M. L) In the 
 beginning God created heaven, 
 and earth. And the earth was 
 void and empty, and darkness 
 was upon the face of the deep ; 
 and the spirit of God moved 
 over the waters. And God 
 said: Be lio^ht made. And light 
 was made. And he called the 
 light Day, and the darkness 
 Night ; and there was evening 
 and morning one day. And 
 God made a firmament, and di- 
 vided the waters that were un- 
 der the firmament, from those 
 that were above the firmament, 
 and it was so. And God called 
 
 the firmament. Heaven ; and 
 the evening and morning were 
 the second day. God also said ; 
 Let the waters that are under 
 the heaven, be gathered to- 
 gether into one place: and let 
 the dry land appear. And it 
 was so done. And he said : 
 Let the earth bring forth the 
 green herb, luid such as may 
 seed, and the fruit tree yielding 
 fruit after its kind, which may 
 have seed in itself upon the 
 earth. And it was so done. 
 And the evening and the morn- 
 ing w^ere the third day. And 
 God made two great lights : a 
 greater light to rule the day ; 
 and a lesser light to rule the 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
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 night ; and the stars. And the 
 evening and morning were the 
 fourth day. And God created 
 the great whales, and every liv- 
 ing and moving creature, which 
 the waters brought forth, ac- 
 cording to their kinds, and 
 every winged fowl according to 
 its kind. And God saw that it 
 was good. And he blessed them, 
 saying : Increase and multipl>^, 
 and till the waters of the sea : 
 and let the birds be multiplied 
 upon the earth. And the even- 
 ing and morning were the fifth 
 day. And God made the beasts 
 of the earth according to their 
 kinds, and cattle, and every 
 thing that creepeth on the earth 
 after its kind. And God saw 
 that it was good. And God 
 created man to his own image : 
 to the image of God he created 
 him : male and female he cre- 
 ated them. And God blessed 
 them, saying : Increase and 
 multiply, and fill the earth, and 
 subdue it, and rule over the 
 fishes of the sea, and the fowls 
 of the air, and all living crea- 
 tures that move upon the earth. 
 And the evening and morning 
 were the sixth day. 
 
 Q. Ho-w did Grod create 
 heaven and earth ? 
 
 (Ps. 32.) By the word of 
 the Lord the heavens were 
 established ; and all the power 
 of them by the spirit of his 
 mouth : gathering together the 
 waters of the sea, as in a A^es- 
 sel ; laying up the depths in 
 store-houses. Let all the earth 
 fear the Lord, and let all the 
 inhabitants of the world be in 
 
 awe of him. For he spoke and 
 they were made: he com- 
 manded and they were created. 
 
 Q. "Which are the chief crea- 
 tures of G-od ? 
 
 (Col. 1.) For in him were 
 all things created in heaven and 
 on earth, visible and invisible, 
 whether thrones, or domina- 
 tions, or principalities, or pow- 
 ers : all things were created by 
 him and in him. 
 
 (Gen. 1.) And he said : Let 
 us make man to our image and 
 likeness : and let him have do- 
 minion over the fishes of the 
 sea, and the fowls of the air, 
 and the beasts, and the whole 
 earth, and ever}' creaping crea- 
 ture that moveth upon the 
 earth. 
 
 Q. "What are angels ? 
 
 (Ezek. 28.) Thou wast the 
 seal of resemblance, full of wis- 
 dom, and perfect in beauty, thou 
 wast in the pleasures of the 
 paradise of God: thou a cherub 
 stretched out, and protecting, 
 and I set thee in the holy moun- 
 tain of God, thou hast walked 
 in the midst of the stones of 
 fire. Thou wast perfect in th}^ 
 ways from the day of thy crea- 
 tion, until iniquity was found 
 in thee. 
 
 Q. "Were the angels creat- 
 ed for any other purpose? 
 
 See"L. of C.,"p. 7, Nos. 1-2-3; p. 72, 
 No. 8. 
 
 (Acts 12. A. D. 42.) Peter 
 was kept in prison. But prayer 
 was made without ceasing 
 by the church unto God for 
 him. And when Herod would 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 have brought him forth, the 
 same night Peter was sleeping 
 between two soldiers, bound 
 with two chains : and the keep- 
 ers before the door kept the 
 prison. And behold an Angel 
 of the Lord stood by him : and 
 a light shined in the room : and 
 he striking Peter on the side, 
 raised him up, saying ; Arise 
 quickly. And the chains fell 
 off from his hands. And the 
 Angel said to him: Gird thy- 
 self, and put on thy sandals. 
 And he did so. And he said to 
 him : Cast thy garment about 
 thee, and follow me. And go- 
 ing out, he followed him, and 
 he knew not that it was true 
 which was done by the Angel : 
 but thought he saw a vision. 
 And passing through the first 
 and the second ward, they came 
 to the iron gate that leadeth to 
 the city, which of itself opened 
 to them. And going out, they 
 passed on through one street : 
 and immediately the Angel de- 
 parted from him. And Peter 
 coming to himself, said: Now 
 I know in very deed, that the 
 Lord hath sent his Angel, and 
 hath delivered me out of the 
 li9,nd of Herod, and from all 
 the expectation of the people 
 of the Jews. 
 
 (Gen. 18-19. A. J\L 2157.) 
 The Lord appeared to Abraham 
 in the vale of Mambre as he 
 was sitting at the door of his 
 tent, in the very heat of the 
 day. And when he had lifted 
 up his eyes, there appeared to 
 him three men standing near 
 him : and as soon as he saw 
 
 them he ran to meet them from 
 the door of his tent, and adored 
 down to the ground. And he 
 said : Lord, if I have found 
 favour in thy sight, pass not 
 away from thy servant : and 
 when they had eaten, they said 
 unto him : Where is Sara thy 
 wife ? He answered : Lo, she 
 is in the tent. And he said to 
 him : I will return and come to 
 thee at this time, life accom- 
 panying, and Sara thy wife shall 
 have a son. And the two an- 
 gels came to Sodom in the even- 
 ing, and Lot was sitting in 
 the gate of the city. And they 
 said to Lot : Hast thou here 
 any of thine? son-in-law, or 
 sons, or daughters, all that are 
 thine bring them out of this 
 city : for we will destroy this 
 place, because their cry is 
 grown loud before the Lord, 
 who hath sent us to destroy 
 them. So Lot went out, and 
 spoke to his sons-in-law that 
 were to have his daughters, and 
 said : Arise : get you out of 
 this place, because the Lord 
 will destroy this city. And 
 he seemed to them to speak as 
 it were in jest. And when it 
 was morning, the angels pressed 
 him, saying : Arise, take thy 
 wife, and the two daughters 
 which thou hast : lest thou also 
 perish in the wickedness of the 
 city. And as he lingered, the}'' 
 took his hand, and the hand of 
 his wife, and of his two daugh- 
 ters, because the Lord spared 
 him. And they brought him 
 forth, and set him without the 
 city : and there they spoke to 
 
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 15 
 
 him, saying : Save thy life : 
 look not back, neither stay thou 
 in all the country about : 
 but save thyself in the moun- 
 tain, lest thou be also consumed. 
 And Lot entered into Segor. 
 And his wife looking behind 
 her, was turned into a statue of 
 salt. And the Lord rained up- 
 on Sodom and Gomorrha brim- 
 stone and fire from the Lord 
 out of heaven. 
 
 (Ps. 90.) There shall no 
 evil come to thee : nor shall the 
 scourge come near thy dwell- 
 ing. For he hath given his 
 Angels charge over thee ; to 
 keep thee in all thy w^ays. In 
 their hands they shall bear thee 
 up ; lest thou dash thy foot 
 against a stone. 
 
 Q. ^Vere the angels, as God. 
 created them, good and 
 happy ? 
 
 (IIL Kings 10. A.M. 3023.) 
 When the queen of Saba saw 
 all the wisdom of Solomon, and 
 the house which he had built, 
 and the meat of his table, and 
 the apartments of his servants, 
 and the order of his ministers, 
 and their apparel, and the cup- 
 bearers, and the holocausts, 
 which he offered in the house of 
 the Lord : she had no longer 
 any spirit in her, and she said 
 to the king : The report is true, 
 which I heard in my own coun- 
 try, concerning thy words, and 
 concerning thy wisdom. And 
 I did not believe them that told 
 me, till I came myself, and saw 
 with my own eyes, and have 
 found that the half hath not 
 been told me : thy wisdom and 
 
 thy works, exceed the fame 
 which 1 heard. Blessed are thy 
 men, and blessed are thy serv- 
 ants, who stand before thee al- 
 ways, and hear thy wisdom. 
 
 Q. Did all the angels remain 
 good and happy ? 
 
 (Apoc. 12.) There was a 
 great battle in heaven, Michael 
 and his angels fought with the 
 dragon, and the dragon fought 
 and his angels : and they pre- 
 vailed not, neither was their 
 l^lace found any more in heaven. 
 And that great dragon was cast 
 out, that old serpent, who is 
 called the devil and satan, who 
 seduceth the whole w^orld ; and 
 he was cast unto the earth, and 
 his angels were thrown down 
 with him. 
 
 (Luke 10.) The seventy-two 
 returned wuth joy, saying: 
 Lord, the devils also are subject 
 to ns in thy name. And he 
 said to them : I saw satan like 
 lightning falling from heaven. 
 
 (Jude 3.) The angels who 
 kept not their principality, but 
 forsook their own habitation, he 
 hath reserved under darkness 
 in everlasting chains, unto the 
 judgment of the great day. 
 
 (II. Peter 2.) For if God 
 spared not the angels that 
 sinned, but delivered them, 
 drawn down by infernal ropes 
 to the lower hell, unto torments, 
 to be reserved unto judgment : 
 the Lord knoweth how to de- 
 liver the godl}' from temptation, 
 but to reserve the unjust unto 
 the day of judgment to be tor- 
 mented. 
 
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 CATECHISM, 
 LESSON FIFTH. 
 
 ON OUR FIRST PARENTS AND THE FALL. 
 
 Q. "Who "were the first man 
 and woman ? 
 
 (Gen. 2. A.M. 1.) The Lord 
 God formed man of the slime 
 of the earth and breathed into 
 his face the breath of life, and 
 man became a living soul. 
 And the Lord God said. It is 
 not good for man to be alone : 
 let us make him a help like 
 unto himself. Then the Lord 
 God cast a deep sleep up*n 
 Adam: and when he was fast 
 asleep, he took one of his ribs, 
 and filled up flesh for it. And 
 the Lord God built the rib 
 which he took from Adam into 
 a woman : and brought her to 
 Adam. And Adam said : This 
 now is bone of my bones, and 
 flesh of my flesh ; she shall be 
 called woman, because she was 
 taken out of man. Wherefore 
 a man shall leave father and 
 mother, and shall cleave to his 
 wife : and they shall be two in 
 one flesh. 
 
 (Gen. 3.) And Adam called 
 tlie name of his wife Eve : be- 
 cause she was the mother of all 
 the living. 
 
 Q. Were Adam and Eve in- 
 nocent and holy when they 
 came from the hand of God ? 
 
 (Wisd. 1.) God made not 
 death, neither hath he pleasure 
 in the destruction of the living. 
 For he created all things tljat 
 they might be : and he made the 
 nations of the earth for health : 
 and there is no poison of de- 
 
 struction in them, nor kingdom 
 of hell upon the earth. For 
 justice is perpetual and immor- 
 tal. 
 
 (Wisd. 2.) For God created 
 man incorruptible, and to the 
 image of his own likeness he 
 made him. But by the envy 
 of the devil, death came into 
 the world. 
 
 (Gen. 2.) And they were 
 both naked : to wit, Adam and 
 his wife : and were not ashamed. 
 
 Q. Did Grod give any com- 
 mand to Adam and Eve ? 
 
 (Gen. 2.) The Lord God 
 took man, and put him into the 
 paradise of pleasure, to dress 
 it, and to keep it. And he 
 commanded him, saying: Of 
 every tree of paradise thou 
 shalt eat: but of the tree of 
 knowledge of good and evil, 
 thou shalt not eat. For in what 
 day soever thou shalt eat of it, 
 thou shalt die the death. 
 
 Q. "Which -were the chief 
 blessings intended for Adam 
 and Eve had they remained 
 faithful to God ? 
 
 (Gen. 2.) The Lord God had 
 planted a paradise of pleasure 
 from the beginning: wherein 
 he i)laced man whom he had 
 formed. And the Lord God 
 brought forth of the ground all 
 manner of trees, fair to behold, 
 and pleasant to eat of: the tree 
 of life also in the midst of para- 
 dise : and the tree of knowledge 
 of good and evil. And the 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 17 
 
 Lord God took man, and put 
 Lim into the paradise of pleas- 
 ure, to dress it, and to keep it. 
 And the Lord God having 
 formed out of the ground all the 
 beasts of the earth, and all the 
 fowls of the air, brought them 
 to Adam to see what he would 
 call them : for whatsoever 
 Adam called any living creature 
 the same is its name. And 
 Adam called all the beasts by 
 their names, and all the fowls 
 of the air, and all the cattle of 
 the field. 
 
 (Gen. L) And God said: 
 Behold I have given you every 
 herb bearing seed upon the 
 earth, and all trees that have 
 in themselves seed of their own 
 kind, to be your meat: and 
 to all beasts of the earth, and 
 to every fowl of the air, and to 
 all that move upon the earth, 
 and wherein there is life, that 
 they may have to feed upon. 
 And it was so done. 
 
 Q. Did Adam and Eve re- 
 main faithful to G-od ? 
 
 (Gen. 3.) Now the serpent 
 was more subtle than any of 
 the beasts of the earth which 
 the Lord God had made. And 
 he said to the woman: Why 
 hath God commanded you, that 
 you should not eat of every 
 tree of paradise ? And the 
 woman answered him, saying: 
 Of the fruit of the trees that 
 are in paradise we do eat : but 
 of the fruit of the tree which 
 is in the midst of paradise, 
 God hath commanded us that 
 we should not eat; and that 
 2 
 
 we should not touch it, lest 
 perhaps we die. And the ser- 
 pent said to the woman : No, 
 3^ou shall not die the death. 
 For God doth know that in 
 what day soever you shall eat 
 thereof, your ej^es shall be 
 opened : and 3^ou shall be as 
 Gods, knowing good and evil. 
 And the woman saw that the 
 tree was good to eat, and fair 
 to the eyes, and delightful to 
 behold : and she took of the 
 fruit thereof, and did eat, and 
 gave to her husband who did 
 eat. 
 
 Q. "What befell Adam and 
 Eve on account of their sin ? 
 
 (Gen. 3.) The eyes of them 
 both were opened : and when 
 they perceived themselves to 
 be naked, the}^ sewed together 
 fig-leaves, and made themselves 
 aprons. And when they heard 
 the voice of the Lord God 
 walking in paradise at the 
 afternoon air, Adam and his 
 wife hid themselves from the 
 face of the Lord God, amidst 
 the trees of paradise. And the 
 Lord God called Adam, and 
 said to him : Where art thou ? 
 And he said : I heard thy voice 
 in paradise ; and I was afraid, 
 because I was naked, and I hid 
 myself. And he said to him : 
 And who hath told thee that 
 thou wast naked, bu,t that thou 
 hast eaten of the tree whereof 
 I commanded thee that thou 
 shouldst not eat? And Adam 
 said: The woman, whom thou 
 gavest me to be my companion, 
 gave me of the tree, and I did 
 
18 
 
 CATECHISM. 
 
 eat. And the Lord God said 
 to the woman : Why hast 
 thou done this? And she an- 
 swered : The serpent deceived 
 me, and I did eat. And the 
 Lord God said to the serpent : 
 Because thou hast done this 
 thing, thou art cursed among 
 all cattle, and beasts of the 
 earth : upon thy breast shalt 
 thou go, and earth shalt thou 
 eat all the days of thy life. I 
 will put enmities between thee 
 and the woman, and thy seed 
 and her seed : she shall crush 
 thy head, and thou shalt lie in 
 wait for her heel. To the 
 woman also he said ; I will 
 multiply thy sorrows, and thy 
 conceptions: in sorrow shalt 
 thou bring forth children, and 
 thou shalt be under thy hus- 
 band's power, and he shall have 
 dominion over thee. And to 
 Adam he said: Because thou 
 hast hearkened to the voice of 
 thy wife, and has eaten of the 
 tree, whereof I commanded 
 thee that thou shonldst not eat, 
 cursed is the earth in th}^ work ; 
 with labour and toil shalt thou 
 eat thereof all the days of thy 
 life. Thorns and thistles shall 
 it bring forth to thee ; and thou 
 shalt eat the herbs of the earth. 
 In the sweat of thy face shalt 
 thou eat bread till thou return 
 to the earth, out of which thou 
 wast taken : for dust thou art, 
 and into dust thou shalt re- 
 turn. And the Lord God made 
 for Adam and his wife, gar- 
 ments of skins, and clothed 
 them. And he said: Behold 
 Adam is become as one of us. 
 
 knowing good and evil : now, 
 therefore, lest perhaps he put 
 forth his hand, and take also 
 of the tree of life, and eat, and 
 live for ever. And the Lord 
 God sent him out of the para- 
 dise of leasure, to till the earth 
 from which he was taken. 
 And he cast out Adam ; and 
 placed before the paradise of 
 pleasure Cherubims, and a 
 flaming sword, turning every 
 way, to keep the way of the 
 tree of life. 
 
 (Isa. 5.) I will sing to my 
 beloved the canticle of ni}^ cous- 
 in concerning his vineyard. 
 My beloved had a vineyard on 
 a hill in a fruitful place. And 
 he fenced it in, and picked the 
 stones out of it, and planted it 
 with the choicest wines, and 
 built a tower in the midst 
 thereof, and set up a wine-press 
 therein : and he looked that it 
 should bring forth grapes, and 
 it brought forth wild grapes. 
 And now, ye inhabitants of 
 Jerusalem, and ye men of Juda, 
 judge between me and my 
 vineyard. What is there that 
 I ought to do more to my vine- 
 yard, that I have not done to 
 it ? was it that I looked that it 
 shonld bring forth grapes, and 
 it hath brought forth Wild 
 grapes ? And now I will shew 
 you what I will do to my vine- 
 yard. I will take away the 
 hedge thereof, and it shall be 
 wasted : I will break down the 
 wall thereof, and it shall be 
 trodden down. And I will 
 make it desolate \ it shall not 
 be pruned, and it shall not be 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 19 
 
 digged : but briers and thorns 
 sliall come up : and I will com- 
 mand the clouds to rain no rain 
 upon it. For the vineyard of 
 tlie Lord of hosts is the house 
 of Israel : and the man of 
 Juda, his pleasant plant : and I 
 looked that he should do judg- 
 ment, and behold iniquity : and 
 do justice, and behold a cry. 
 
 Q. What evil befell us on 
 account of the disobedience 
 of our first parents ? 
 
 (Ex. 5. A. M. 2513.) Pharao 
 said : The people of the land is 
 numerous : you see that the 
 multitude is increased: how 
 much more if you give them 
 rest from their works ? There- 
 fore he commanded the same 
 day the overseers of the works, 
 and the task-masters of the 
 people, saying : You shall give 
 straw no more to the people to 
 make brick, as before : but let 
 them go and gather straw. 
 And you shall lay upon them 
 the task of bricks, which they 
 did before, neither shall you di- 
 minish any thing thereof: for 
 they are idle, and therefore 
 they cry, saying : Let us go 
 and sacrifice to our God. Let 
 them be oppressed, with works, 
 and let them fulfil them : that 
 they may not regard lying 
 words. And the overseers of 
 the works and the task-masters 
 went out and said to the peo- 
 ple : Thus saith Pharao, I al- 
 low you no straw : go, and 
 gather it where you can find 
 it : neither shall anything of 
 your work be diminished. And 
 the people was scattered 
 
 through all the land of Egypt 
 to gather straw. And the over- 
 seers of the works pressed 
 them, saying : Fulfil your work 
 every day as before you were 
 wont to do when straw was 
 given you. And the}^ that 
 were over the works of the 
 children of Israel were scourged 
 by Pharao's task-masters, say- 
 ing: Why have you not 
 made up the task of bricks 
 both yesterday and to-day as 
 before ? 
 
 Q. TVhat other effects fol- 
 lowed from, the sin of our 
 first parents ? 
 
 (Eccltus. 40.) Great labour is 
 created for all men, and a heavy 
 yoke is upon the children of 
 Adam, from the day of their 
 coming out of their mother's 
 womb, until the day of their 
 burial into the mother of all. 
 Their thoughts, and fears of the 
 heart, their imagination of 
 things to come, and the day of 
 their end: from him that sit- 
 teth on a glorious throne, unto 
 him that is humbled in earth 
 and ashes : from him that 
 weareth purple, and beareth 
 the crown, even to him that is 
 covered with rough linen : 
 wrath, envy, trouble, unquiet- 
 ness, and the fear of death, con- 
 tinual anger, and strife, such 
 things happen to all flesh, from 
 man even to beast, and upon 
 sinners are sevenfold more. 
 Moreover, death, and blood- 
 shed, strife, and sword, oppres- 
 sions, famine, and affliction, and 
 scourges : all these things are 
 created for the wicked. 
 
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 CATECHIS3L 
 
 Q. What is the sin called \ 
 -which we inherit from our \ 
 first parents? ! 
 
 (I. Tim. 2.) Ill like manner | 
 women also in decent apparel : 
 adorning themselves with mod- 
 esty and sobriety, not with 
 plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, 
 or costly attire, but as it be- 
 cometh women professing god- 
 liness, with good works. Let 
 the woman learn in silence, 
 with all subjection. But I suf- 
 fer not a woman to teach, nor 
 to use authority over the man : 
 but to be in silence. For Adam 
 was first formed; then Eve. 
 And Adam was not seduced ; 
 but the woman being seduced, 
 was in the transgression. 
 
 Q. "Why is this sin called 
 original ? 
 
 (Rom. 5.) As by one man 
 sin entered into this world, and 
 b}^ sin death ; and so death 
 passed upon all men, in whom 
 all have sinned. For until the 
 law sin was in the world ; but 
 sin was not imputed, when the 
 law was not. But death reigned 
 from Adam unto Moses, even 
 over them also who have not 
 sinned after the similitude of 
 the transgression of Adam, who 
 is a ficTure of him who was to 
 come. 
 
 Q. Does this corruption of 
 our nature remain in us 
 after original sin is for- 
 given ? 
 
 (II. Cor. 12.) Lest the great- 
 ness of the revelations should 
 exalt me, there was given me a | 
 sting of my flesh, an angel of J 
 
 satan, to buffet me. For which 
 thing thrice I besought the 
 Lord, that it might depart from 
 me. And he said to me : My 
 grace is suflftcient for thee : for 
 power is made perfect in in- 
 firmity. Gladly therefore will 
 I glory in my infirmities, that 
 the power of Christ may dwell 
 in me. 
 
 (Rom. 7.) I am delighted 
 with the law of God, according 
 to the inward man : but I see 
 another law in my members, 
 fighting against the law of my 
 mind, and captivating me in 
 the law of sin, that is in my 
 members. Unhappy man that 
 I am, who shall deliver me from 
 the body of this death? The 
 grace of God, by Jesus Christ 
 our Lord. Therefore, I myself, 
 with the mind, serve the law of 
 God; but with the flesh, the 
 law of sin. 
 
 Q. Was any one ever pre- 
 served from original sin ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 8, No. 5 ; p. 36, No. 26. 
 
 (Apoc. 12.) A great sign 
 appeared in heaven : A woman 
 clothed with the sun, and the 
 moon under her feet, and on 
 her head a crown of twelve 
 stars. 
 
 (Cant. 5: Cant. 6.) Who is 
 she that cometh forth as the 
 morning rising, fair as the 
 moon, bright as the sun, ter- 
 rible as an army set in arrav ? 
 
 (Gen. 6. A. M. 1536.) Noe 
 found grace before the Lord. 
 But the earth was corrupted 
 before God, and was filled with 
 iniquity. And when God had 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 21 
 
 seen that the earth was cor- 
 rupted (for all flesh had cor- 
 rupted its way upon the earth,) 
 he said to Noe : The end of all 
 flesh is come before me, the 
 earth is filled with iniquity 
 tlirough them, and I will de- 
 stroy them with the earth. 
 Make thee an ark of timber 
 planks : thou shalt make little 
 rooms in the ark, and thou 
 shalt pitch it within and with- 
 out. And thus shalt thou make 
 it : The length of the ark shall 
 be three hundred cubits : the 
 breadth of it fifty cubits, and 
 the height of it thirty cubits. 
 Thou shalt make a window in 
 the ark, and in a cubit shalt 
 thou finish the top of it : and 
 the door of the ark thou shalt 
 set in the side : with lower, 
 middle chambers, and third sto- 
 ries shalt thou make it. Behold 
 I will bring the waters of a 
 great flood upon the earth, to 
 destroy all flesh, wherein is the 
 breath of life, under heaven. 
 All things that are in the earth 
 shall be consumed. And I will 
 establish my covenant with 
 thee, and thou shalt enter into 
 the ark, thou and thy sons, and 
 thy wife, and the wives of thy 
 sons with thee. 
 
 (Gen. 7.) And Noe went in 
 and his sons, his wife and the 
 wives of his sons with him into 
 the ark, because of the waters 
 of the flood. And of beasts 
 clean and unclean, and of fowls, 
 and of everything that moveth 
 upon the earth. Two and two 
 went in to Noe into the ark, 
 male and female, as the Lord 
 
 had commanded Noe. And af- 
 ter the seven days were passed, 
 the waters of the flood over- 
 flowed the earth. And the rain 
 fell upon the earth forty days 
 and forty nights. The water 
 was fifteen cubits higher than 
 the mountains which it covered. 
 And all flesh was destroyed 
 that moved upon the earth, 
 both of fowl, and of cattle, and 
 of beasts, and of all creeping 
 things that creep upon the 
 earth : and all men. And all 
 things wherein there is the 
 breath of life on the earth, died, 
 and the waters prevailed upon 
 the earth a hundred and fifty 
 days. 
 
 (Gen. 8.) And God remem- 
 bered Noe, and all the living 
 creatures, and all the cattle 
 which were with him in the ark, 
 and brought a wind upon the 
 earth, and the waters were 
 abated. And the waters were 
 going and decreasing until the 
 tenth month : for in the tenth 
 month, the first day of the 
 month, the tops of the moun- 
 tains appeared. And after that 
 forty days were passed, Noe, 
 opening the window of the ark 
 which he had made, sent forth 
 a raven : which went forth 
 and did not return, till the 
 waters were dried up upon the 
 earth. He sent forth also a 
 dove after him, to see if the 
 waters had now ceased upon 
 the face of the earth. But she, 
 not finding where her foot 
 might rest, returned to him in- 
 to the ark : for the waters were 
 upon the whole earth : and he 
 
22 
 
 CATECHISM, 
 
 put forth his hand, and caught 
 her, and brought her into the 
 ark. And having waited jet 
 seven other days, he again sent 
 forth the dove out of the ark. 
 And she came to him in the 
 evening, carrying a bough of an 
 olive tree, with green leaves, in 
 her mouth. Noe therefore un- 
 derstood that the waters were 
 ceased upon the earth. And 
 he sta3'ed yet otlier seven days : 
 and he sent forth the dove, 
 which returned not any more 
 unto him. So Noe went out, he 
 and his sons : his wife, and the 
 wives of his sons with him. 
 And all living things, and cat- 
 tle, and creeping things that 
 creep upon the earth, according 
 to their kinds, went out of the 
 ark. 
 
 (Gen. 9.) And God blessed 
 Noe and his sons. And he said 
 to them: Increase and multi- 
 ply, and fill the earth. I will 
 establish my covenant with 
 you, and all flesh shall be no 
 more destroyed with the waters 
 of a flood, neither shall there 
 be from henceforth a flood to 
 waste the earth. And God 
 said: This is the sign of the 
 covenant which I give between 
 me and 3^ou, and to every liv- 
 ing soul that is with you, for 
 perpetual generations. I will 
 set my bow in the clouds, and 
 it shall be the sign of a cove- 
 nant between me, and between 
 the earth. And when I shall 
 cover the sky with clouds, my 
 bow shall appear in the clouds : 
 and I will remember my cove- 
 nant with you, and with every 
 
 living soul that beareth flesh : 
 and there shall no more be 
 waters of a flood to destroy all 
 flesh. And the bow shall be in 
 the clouds, and I shall see it, 
 and shall remember the ever- 
 lasting covenant, that was 
 made between God and every 
 living soul of all flesh which is 
 upon the earth. And God 
 said to Noe : This shall be the 
 sign of the covenant which I 
 have established between me 
 and all flesh upon the earth. 
 
 (Ex. 14. A. M. 2513.) When 
 Moses had stretched forth his 
 hand over the sea, the Lord 
 took it away by a strong and 
 burning wind blowing all the 
 niorht, and turned it into drv 
 ground : and the water was 
 divided. So Mary the proph- 
 etess the sister of Aaron, took 
 a timbrel in her hand : and all 
 the women went forth after 
 her with timbrels and with 
 dances: and the children of 
 Israel went in through the 
 midst of the sea dried up: for 
 the water was as a wall on their 
 right hand and on their left. 
 And the Egyptians pursuing 
 went in after them, and all 
 Pharao's horses, his chariots 
 and horsemen through the 
 midst of the sea. And the 
 Lord said to Moses: Stretch 
 forth thy hand over the sea, 
 that the waters may come 
 again upon the Egyptians, upon 
 their chariots and horsemen. 
 And when Moses had stretched 
 forth his hand towards the sea, 
 it returned at the first break of 
 day to the former place: and 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 23 
 
 as the Egyptians were fleeing 
 away, the waters came upon 
 them, and the Lord shut them 
 up in the middle of the weaves. 
 And the waters returned, and 
 covered the chariots and the 
 horsemen of all the army of 
 Pharao, who had come into the 
 sea after them, neither did 
 there so much as one of them 
 remain. But the children of 
 Israel marched through the 
 midst of the sea upon dry 
 land, and the waters were to 
 them as a wall on the right 
 hand and on the left : and the 
 Lord delivered Israel on that 
 day out of the hands of the 
 Egvptians. 
 
 (Judg. 4. A. M. 2570.) The 
 Lord delivered the Israelites 
 up into the hands of Jaban 
 king of Chanaan, who reigned 
 in Asor : and he had a general 
 of his army named Sisara, and 
 he dwelt in Haroseth of the 
 Gentiles. And there w^as at 
 that time Debbora a prophetess 
 the wife of Lapidoth, who 
 judged the people. And she 
 sent and called Barac the son 
 of Abinoem out of Cedes in 
 Nephtali : and she said to him : 
 The Lord God of Israel hath 
 commanded thee : Go, and lead 
 an army to mount Thabor, and 
 thou shalt take with thee ten 
 thousand fighting men of the 
 children of Nephtali, and of 
 the children of Zabulon : and 
 I will bring unto thee in the 
 place of the torrent Cison, 
 Sisara the general of Jabin's 
 army, and his chariots, and all 
 his multitude, and will deliver 
 
 them into th}^ hand. And 
 Barac said to her: If thou 
 wilt come with me, I will go: 
 if thou wilt not come with me, 
 I will not go. She said to 
 him : I will go indeed with 
 thee, but at this time the vic- 
 tory shall not be attributed to 
 thee, because Sisara shall be 
 delivered into the hand of a 
 woman. Debbora therefore 
 arose, and went with Barac to 
 Cedes. And the Lord struck 
 a terror into Sisara, and all his 
 chariots, and all his multitude, 
 with the edge of the sword, at 
 the sight of Barac, insomuch 
 that Sisara leaping down from 
 off his chariot, fled away on 
 foot. And Barac pursued after 
 the fleeing chariots and the 
 army unto Haroseth of the 
 Gentiles, and all the multitude 
 of the enemies was utterly de- 
 stroyed. But Sisara fleeing 
 came to the tent of Jahel the 
 wife of Haber the Cinite, for 
 there was peace betw^een Jabin 
 the king of Asor, and the house 
 of Haber the Cinite. And 
 Jahel went forth to meet Sisara, 
 and said to him : Come in to 
 me, my lord, come in, fear not. 
 He went in to her tent, and be- 
 ing covered b}^ her with a 
 cloak, said to her : Give me, I 
 beseech thee, a little water, for 
 I am very thirsty. She opened 
 a bottle of milk, and gave him 
 to drink, and covered him. 
 And Sisara said to her : Stand 
 before the door of the tent, and 
 when any shall come and in- 
 quire of thee, saying : Is there 
 any man here ? thou sbalt say : 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 There is none. So Jaliel 
 Haber's wife took a nail of the 
 tent, and taking also a hammer : 
 and going in softly, and with 
 silence, she put the nail upon 
 the temples of his head, and 
 striking it with the hammer, 
 drove it through his brain fast 
 I into the ground: and so pass- 
 ing from deep sleep to death, 
 he fainted away and died. 
 And behold Barac came pursu- 
 ing after Sisara : and Jahel 
 went out to meet him, and said 
 to him : Come, and I will 
 shew thee the man whom thou 
 seekest. And when he came 
 into her tent, he saw Sisara ly- 
 ing dead, and the nail fastened 
 in his temples. 
 
 ( Judg. 6. A. M. 2759.) Ged- 
 eon said to God : If thou wilt 
 save Israel by my hand, as thou 
 hast said, I will put this fleece 
 of wool on the floor : if there 
 be dew on the fleece only, and 
 it be dry on all the ground be- 
 side, I shall know that by my 
 hand, as thou hast said, thou 
 wilt deliver Israel. And it was 
 so. And rising before day 
 wringing the fleece, he fllled a 
 vessel with the dew. And he 
 said again to God : Let not thy 
 wi'ath be kindled against me if 
 I try once more, seeking a sign 
 in the fleece. I pray that the 
 fleece only may be dry, and all 
 the ground wet with dew. And 
 God did that night as he had 
 requested: and it was dry on 
 the fleece only, and there was 
 dew on all the ground. 
 
 (Judith A. M. 3347.) Nab- 
 uchodonosor king of the As- 
 
 sja-ians, sent messengers to the 
 nations. But they all with one 
 mind refused, and sent them 
 back empty, and rejected them 
 without honour. Then king 
 Nabuchodonosor being angry 
 against all that land, swore by 
 his throne and kingdom that he 
 would reveno^e himself of all 
 those countries. And he said 
 that his thoughts were to bring 
 all the earth under his empire. 
 And when this saying pleased 
 them all, Nabuchodonosor, the 
 king, called Ilolofernes the gen- 
 eral of his armies, and said to 
 him : Go out against all the 
 kingdoms of the west, and 
 against them especially that de- 
 spised ni}' commandment. Thy 
 eye shall not spare any king- 
 dom, and all the strong cities 
 thou shalt bring under ray 3^oke. 
 Then Holofernes went forth, he 
 and all the arm}^, with the char- 
 iots, and horsemen, and archers, 
 who covered the face of the 
 earth, like locusts. Then the 
 children of Israel, who dwelt in 
 the land of Juda, hearing these 
 things, were exceedingl}^ afraid 
 of him. Dread and horror 
 seized upon their minds, lest he 
 should do the same to Jerusa- 
 lem and to the temple of the 
 Lord, that he had done to other 
 cities and their temples. And 
 they sent into all Samaria round 
 about, as far as Jericho, and 
 seized upon all the tops of the 
 mountains : and they com- 
 passed their towns with walls, 
 and gathered together corn for 
 provision for war. And it was 
 told Holofernes the general of 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 25 
 
 the array of the Assyrians, that 
 the children of Israel prepared 
 themselves to resist, and had 
 shut up tlie ways of the moun- 
 tains. And he was transported 
 with exceeding great fury and 
 indignation. But Holofernes 
 on the next day gave orders to 
 his army, to go up against 
 Bethulia. Now Holofernes, in 
 going round about, found that 
 the fountain w^hich supplied 
 them with water, ran through 
 an aqueduct without the city on 
 the south side : and he com- 
 manded their aqueduct to be 
 cut off. Nevertheless there 
 were springs not far from the 
 walls, out of which they were 
 seen secretly to draw water, to 
 refresh themselves a little 
 rather than to drink their fill. 
 Then he placed all round about 
 a hundred men at every spring. 
 And when they had kept this 
 watch for full twenty days, the 
 cisterns, and the reserve of 
 waters failed among all the in- 
 habitants of Bethulia, so that 
 there was not within the city, 
 enough to satisfy them, no not 
 for one day, for water w^as daily 
 given out to the people by 
 measure. Then all the men 
 and women, young men, and 
 children, gathering themselves 
 together to Ozias, all together 
 with one voice, said : God be 
 judge between us and thee, for 
 thou hast done evil against us, 
 in that thou wouldst not speak 
 peaceabl}'' with the Assyrians, 
 and for this cause God hath sold 
 us into their hands. And now 
 assemble 3^e all that are in the 
 
 city, that we may of our own 
 accord yield ourselves all up to 
 the people of Holofernes. Ozias 
 rising up all in tears, said : Be 
 of good courage, my brethren, 
 and let us w^ait these five days 
 for mercy from the Lord. For 
 perhaps he will put a stop to 
 his indignation, and will give 
 glory to his ow^n name. But if 
 after five days be past there come 
 no aid, we will do the things 
 which you have spoken. Now 
 Judith was a widow now three 
 3^ears and six months. And she 
 made herself a private chamber 
 in the upper part of her house, 
 in which she abode shut up with 
 her maids, and she wore hair- 
 cloth upon her loins, and fasted 
 all the daj's of her life, except 
 the sabbaths, and new-moons, 
 and the feasts of the house of 
 Israel. And she was exceed- 
 in gl3'' beautiful, and her hus- 
 band left her great riches, and 
 very many servants, and large 
 possessions of herds of oxen, 
 and flocks of sheep. And she 
 was greatly renowned among 
 all, because she feared the Lord 
 very much, neither w^as there 
 any one that spoke an ill word 
 of her. Now it came to pass, 
 when Judith had heard these 
 words she went into her oratory: 
 and putting on hair-cloth, laid 
 ashes on her head : and falling 
 down prostrate before the Lord, 
 she cried to the Lord. And it 
 came to pass, when she had 
 ceased to cry to the Lord, that 
 she rose from the place wherein 
 she lay prostrate before the 
 Lord. And she called her maid. 
 
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 CATECHISM, 
 
 and going down into her bouse 
 she took off her hair-cloth, and 
 put away the garments of her 
 widowhood, and she washed her 
 body, and anointed herself with 
 the best ointment, and plaited 
 the hair of her head, and put a 
 bonnet upon her head, and 
 clothed herself with the gar- 
 ments of her gladness, and put 
 sandals on her feet, and took 
 her bracelets, and lilies, and 
 earlets, and rings, and adorned 
 herself with all her ornaments. 
 And the Lord also gave her 
 more beauty : because all this 
 dressing up did not proceed 
 from sensuality, but from vir- 
 tue : and therefore the Lord in- 
 creased this her beauty, so that 
 she appeared to all men's eyes 
 incomparably lovely. And she 
 gave to her maid a bottle of 
 wine to carry, and a vessel of 
 oil, and parched corn, and dry 
 figs, and bread and cheese, and 
 went out. But Judith praying 
 to the Lord, passed through the 
 gates, she and her maid. And 
 it came to pass, when she went 
 down the hill, about break of 
 day, that the watchmen of the 
 Assyrians met her, and stopped 
 her, saying : Whence comest 
 thou ? or whither goest thou ? 
 And she answered : I am a 
 daughter of the Hebrews, and 
 I am fled from them, because I 
 knew they would be made a 
 prey to you, because they de- 
 spised you, and would not of 
 their own accord yield them- 
 selves, that they might find 
 mercy in your sight. And they 
 brought her to the tent of Hol- 
 
 ofernes, telling him of her. And 
 when she was come into his 
 presence, forthwith Holofernes 
 was caught by his eyes. And 
 Judith said to him : Receive 
 the words of thy handmaid, for 
 if thou wilt follow the words of 
 thy handmaid, the Lord will do 
 with thee a perfect thing. For 
 it is certain that our God is so 
 offended with sins, that he hath 
 sent word by his prophets to 
 the people, that he will deliver 
 them np for their sins. And 
 because the children of Israel 
 know they have offended their 
 God, thy dread is upon them. 
 And because God is angry with 
 them, I am sent to tell these 
 very things to thee. And all 
 these words pleased Holofernes, 
 and his servants, and they ad- 
 mired her wisdom, and they 
 said one to another : There is 
 not such another woman upon 
 earth in look, in beauty, and in 
 sense of words. Then he 
 ordered that she should go in 
 where his treasures were laid 
 up, and bade her tarry there, 
 and he appointed what should 
 be given her from his own table. 
 Judith answered him and said: 
 Now I can not eat of these 
 tliino;s which thou commandest 
 to be given me, lest sin come 
 upon me : but I will eat of the 
 things which I have brought. 
 Holofernes said to her : If these 
 things which thou hast brought 
 with thee, fail thee, what shall 
 we do for thee? And Judith 
 said : As thy soul liveth, my 
 Lord, thy handmaid shall not 
 spend all these things till God 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 27 
 
 do by my hand that which I 
 have purposed. And his serv- 
 ants brought her into the tent 
 which he had commanded. Now 
 when she was going in, she de- 
 sired that she might have 
 liberty to go out at night and 
 before day to praj^er, and to 
 beseech the Lord. And he com- 
 manded his chamberlains, that 
 she might go out and in, to 
 adore her God as she pleased, 
 for three days. And it came 
 to pass on the fourth da}^, that 
 Holofernes made a supper for 
 his servants, and said to Yagao 
 his eunuch : Go, and persuade 
 that Hebrew woman, to consent 
 of her own accord to dwell with 
 me. And Judith answered him : 
 Who am I, that I should gain- 
 say my lord? All that shall 
 be good and best before his eyes, 
 I will do. And whatsoever 
 shall please him, that shall be 
 best to me all the days of my 
 life. And she arose and dressed 
 herself out with her garments, 
 and going in she stood before 
 his face. And the heart of 
 Holofernes was smitten, and 
 when it was grown late, his 
 servants made haste to their 
 lodgings, and Yagao shut the 
 chamber-doors, and went his 
 way. And they were all over- 
 charged with wine. And Judith 
 was alone in the chamber. But 
 Holofernes lay on his bed, fast 
 asleep, being exceedingly drunk. 
 And Judith spoke to her maid 
 to stand without before the 
 chamber, and to watch : and 
 Judith stood before the bed 
 praying with tears, and the 
 
 motion of her lips in silence. 
 Then she went to the pillar that 
 was at his bed's head, and loosed 
 his sword that hung tied upon 
 it. And when she had drawn it 
 out, she took him by the hair of 
 his head, and said : Strengthen 
 me, O Lord God, at this hour. 
 And she struck twice upon his 
 neck, and cut off his head, and 
 took off his canopy from the 
 pillars, and rolled away his 
 headless body. And after a 
 while she went out, and deliv- 
 ered the head of Holofernes to 
 her maid, and bade her put it 
 into her wallet. And they two 
 went out according to their 
 custom, as it were to prayer, 
 and they passed the camp, and 
 having compassed the valley, 
 they came to the gate of the 
 city. And all ran to meet her 
 from the least to the greatest : 
 for they now had no hopes that 
 she would come. And when 
 all had held their peace, Judith 
 said: Praise ye the Lord our 
 God, who hath not forsaken 
 them that hope in him. And 
 that thou mayst find that it is 
 so, behold the head of Holofer- 
 nes, who in the contempt of his 
 pride despised the God of 
 Israel : and threatened thee 
 with death. But after they had 
 recovered their spirits they fell 
 down at her feet, and rever- 
 enced her, and said : Blessed 
 art thou by thy God in every 
 tabernacle of Jacob, for in every 
 nation which shall hear thy 
 name, the God of Israel shall 
 be magnified on occasion of 
 thee. And immediately at 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 break of day, they hniig up the 
 head of Holoferiies upon the 
 walls, and every man took his 
 arms, and they went out with 
 a great noise and shouting. 
 And the watchmen seeing this, 
 ran to the tent of Holofernes. 
 But when with harkening, he 
 perceived no motion of one 
 lying, he came near to the 
 curtain, and lifting it up, and 
 seeing the body of Holofernes, 
 lying upon the ground, without 
 the head, weltering in his blood, 
 be cried out with a loud voice, 
 with weeping, and rent his 
 garments. And he went into 
 the tent of Judith, and not find- 
 ing her, he run out to the peo- 
 ple, and said : One Hebrew 
 woman hath made confusion in 
 the house of king Nabucho- 
 donosor : for behold Holofernes 
 lietli upon the ground, and his 
 head is not upon him. And 
 when all the army heard that 
 Holofernes was beheaded, cour- 
 
 age and counsel fled from them, 
 and being seized with trembling 
 and fear they thought only to 
 save themselves by flight : so 
 the children of Israel seeing 
 them fleeing, followed after 
 them. And they went down 
 sounding with trumpets and 
 shouting after them. And 
 thirty days were scarce suflfi- 
 cient for the people of Israel to 
 gather up the spoils of the As- 
 syrians. And Joachim the 
 high priest came from Jerusa- 
 lem to Bethulia with all his 
 ancients to see Judith. And 
 when she was come out to him, 
 they all blessed her with one 
 voice, saying : Thou art the 
 glory of Jerusalem, thou art 
 the joy of Israel, thou art the 
 honour of our people. And she 
 abode in her husband's house a 
 hundred and five 3^ ears, and 
 made her handmaid free, and 
 she died, and was buried with 
 her husband in Bethulia. 
 
 LESSON SIXTH. 
 
 ON SIN AND ITS KINDS. 
 
 Q. Is original sin the only 
 kind of sin ? 
 
 (Gal. 5.) Now the works 
 of the flesh are manifest, which 
 are fornication, uncleanness, 
 immodest}^ luxury, idolatry, 
 witchcrafts, enmities, conten- 
 tions, emulations, wraths, quar- 
 rels, dissensions, sects, envies, 
 murders, drunkenness, revel- 
 lings, and such like. Of the 
 
 which I foretell you, as I have 
 foretold to you, that they who 
 do such things shall not obtain 
 the kingdom of God. 
 
 Q. "What is actual sin ? 
 
 See " L. of C.,'' p. 59, No. 17. 
 
 (I. John 2.) Love not the 
 world, nor the things which are 
 in the world. If an}'- man love 
 the world, the charity of the 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 29 
 
 Father is not in him. For all 
 that is in the world, is the con- 
 cupiscence of the flesh, and the 
 concupiscence of the eyes, and 
 the pride of life, which is not 
 of the Father, but is of the 
 world. And the world passeth 
 awa}^, and the concupiscence 
 thereof: but he that doth the 
 will of God, abideth for ever. 
 
 Q. How many kinds of ac- 
 tual sin are there ? 
 
 (I. Cor. 3.) Other founda- 
 tion no man can lay, but that 
 which is laid ; which is Christ 
 Jesus. Now if an}^ man build 
 upon this foundation, gold, sil- 
 ver, precious stones, wood, ha}^ 
 stubble : every man's work 
 shall be manifest ; for the da}' 
 of the Lord shall declare it, be- 
 cause it shall be revealed in 
 lire ; and the fire shall try ever}^ 
 man's work, of what sort it is. 
 If any man's work abide, which 
 he hath built thereupon, he 
 shall receive a reward. If any 
 man's work burn, he shall suf- 
 fer loss ; but he himself shall 
 be saved, yet so as by fire. 
 Know you not, that you are 
 the temple of God, and that the 
 Spirit of God dwelleth in you ? 
 But if any man violate the tem- 
 ple of God, him shall God de- 
 stroy. For the temple of God 
 is holy, which you are. 
 
 Q. What is mortal sin ? 
 
 See "L. of C.."p.68, No. 37. 
 
 (James 1.) Every man is 
 tempted by his own concupi- 
 scence, being drawn away and 
 allured. Then when concupi- 
 scence hath conceived, it bring- 
 
 eth forth sin. But sin, when it 
 is completed, begetteth death. 
 
 Q. "Why is this sin called 
 mortal ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 84, No. 13. 
 
 (I. John 5.) All iniquity is 
 sin. And there is a sin unto 
 death. 
 
 Q. How many things are 
 necessary to make a sin 
 mortal ? 
 
 (Prov. 2.) They leave the 
 right way, and walk by dark 
 ways : who are glad when they 
 have done evil, and rejoice in 
 most wicked things : whose 
 ways are perverse, and their 
 steps infamous. 
 
 Q. What is venial sin ? 
 
 See "L. of C.,'' p. 109, No. 4. 
 
 (Prov. 24.) A just man shall 
 fall seven times and shall rise 
 again : but the wicked shall fall 
 down into evil. 
 
 (Eccltus. 19.) And he that 
 contemneth small things, shall 
 fall hy little and little. 
 
 Q. Which are the effects of 
 
 venial sin? 
 See"L.of C.,"p. no, No. 2; p. Ill, No. 5. 
 
 (Eccltus. 19.) He that con- 
 temneth small things, shall fall 
 by little and little. 
 
 Q. Which are the chief sour- 
 ces of sin ? 
 
 (Gen. 11. A. M. 1800.) Now 
 the earth was of one tongue, 
 and of the same speech. And 
 when the}^ removed from the 
 east, they found a plain in the 
 land of Sennaar, and dwelt in 
 
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 CATECHIS3I. 
 
 it. And each one said to bis 
 neighbour : Come, let us make 
 brick, and bake them with fire. 
 And they had brick instead of 
 stones, and slime instead of 
 mortar. And they said : Come, 
 let ns make a city and a tower, 
 the top whereof may reach to 
 heaven : and let us make our 
 name famous before we be scat- 
 tered abroad into all lands. And 
 tiie Lord came down to see the 
 city and the tower, which the 
 children of Adam were build- 
 ing. And he said : Beliold, it 
 is one people, and all have one 
 tongue : and they have begun 
 to do this, neither will they 
 leave off from their designs, till 
 they accomplish them in deed. 
 Come ye, therefore, let us go 
 down, and there confound their 
 tongue, that they may not un- 
 derstand one another's speech. 
 And so the Lord scattered them 
 from that place into all lands, 
 and they ceased to build the 
 city. And therefore the name 
 thereof was called Babel, be- 
 cause there the language of the 
 whole earth was confounded : 
 and from thence the Lord scat- 
 tered them abroad upon the 
 face of all countries. 
 
 (Eccltus. 6.) A covetous 
 man shall not be satisfied with 
 money ; and he that loveth 
 riches shall reap no fruit from 
 them : so this also is vanit3\ 
 Where there are great riches, 
 therearealso many to eat them. 
 And what doth it profit the 
 owner, but that he seeth the 
 riches with his eyes ? Sleep is 
 sweet to a labouring man. 
 
 whether he eat little or much : 
 but the fulness of the rich will 
 not suffer him to sleep. There 
 is also another grievous evil, 
 which I have seen under the 
 sun : riches kept to the hurt of 
 the owner. For they are lost 
 with very great affliction : he 
 hath begotten a son, who shall 
 be in extremit}'' of want. As 
 he came forth naked from his 
 mother's womb, so shall he re- 
 turn, and shall take nothing 
 away with him of his labour. 
 A most deplorable evil : ns he 
 came, so shall he return. What 
 then doth it profit him that he 
 hath laboured for the wind ? 
 All the days of his life he eat- 
 eth in darkness, and in mnny 
 cares, and in misery, and sor- 
 row. This therefore hath seemed 
 good to me, that a man should 
 eat and drink, and enjoy the 
 fruit of his labour, wherewith 
 he hath laboured under the sun, 
 all the days of bis life, which 
 God hath given him : and this 
 is his portion. And everj^ man 
 to whom God bath given riches, 
 and substance, and hath given 
 him power to eat thereof, and 
 to enjo}^ his portion, and to re- 
 joice of his labour: this is the 
 gift of God. 
 
 (Prov. 7.) She entangled 
 him with many words, and drew 
 him away with the flattery of 
 her lips. Immediately be fol- 
 lowetb her as an ox led to be a 
 victim, and as a lamb playing 
 the wanton, and not knowing 
 that be is drawn like a fool to 
 bonds. Till the arrow pierce 
 bis liver : as if a bird should 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 31 
 
 make haste to the snare, and 
 knoweth not that his life is in 
 danger. 
 
 (Gen. 4. A. M. 2.) Abel 
 was a shepherd, and Cain a 
 husbandman. And it came to 
 pass after many days, that Cain 
 offered, of the- fruits of the 
 earth, gifts to the Lord. Abel 
 also offered of the firstlings of 
 his flock, and of their fat : and 
 the Lord had respect to Abel, 
 and to his offerings. But to 
 Cain and his offerings he had 
 no respect : and Cain was ex- 
 ceedingly angry, and his coun- 
 tenance fell. And the Lord 
 said to him : Why art thou 
 angry? and why is thy counte- 
 nance fallen ? If thou do well, 
 shalt thou not receive ? but if 
 ill, shall not sin forthwith be 
 present at the door? but the 
 lust thereof shall be under thee, 
 and thou shalt have dominion 
 over it. And Cain said to Abel 
 his brother : Let us go forth 
 abroad. And when they were 
 in the field, Cain rose up against 
 his brother Abel, and slew him. 
 And the Lord said to Cain : 
 Where is thy brother Abel? 
 And he answered, I know not : 
 am I my brother's keeper ? 
 And he said to him : What 
 hast thou done? the voice of 
 thy brother's blood crieth to 
 me from the earth. Now, there- 
 fore, cursed shalt thou be upon 
 the earth, which hath opened 
 her mouth and received the 
 blood of thy brother at th}^ 
 hand. 
 
 (Gen. 9. A. M. 1656.) Now 
 the sons of Noe who came out 
 
 of the ark, were Sem, Cham, 
 and Japheth : and Cham is the 
 father of Chanaan. These three 
 are the sons of Noe: and from 
 these was all mankind spread 
 over the whole earth. And 
 Noe, a husbandman began to 
 till the ground, and p hinted a 
 vineyard. And drinking of the 
 wine was made drunk, and was 
 uncovered in his tent. Which 
 when Cham the father of Cha- 
 naan had seen, to wit, that his 
 father's nakedness was uncov- 
 ered, he told it to his two breth- 
 ren without. But Sem and 
 Japheth put a cloak upon their 
 shoulders, and going backward, 
 covered the nakedness of their 
 father : and their faces were 
 turned awa}^, and they saw not 
 tlieir father's nakedness. And 
 Noe awaking from the wine, 
 when he had learned what his 
 younger son had done to him. 
 He said: Cursed be Chanaan, 
 a servant of servants shall he 
 be unto his brethren. 
 
 (Gen. 37. A. M. 2276.) Jo- 
 seph, when he was sixteen ^^ears 
 old, was feeding the flock with 
 his brethren, being hut a boy : 
 and he was with the sons of 
 Bala and of Zelpha his father's 
 wives : and he accused his 
 brethren to his father of a most 
 wicked crime. Now Israel loved 
 Joseph above all his sons, be- 
 cause he had him in his old age : 
 and he made him a coat of di- 
 vers colours. And his brethren 
 seeing that he was loved by his 
 father, more than all his sons, 
 hated him, and could not speak 
 peaceabl}' to him. Now it fell 
 
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 CATECHIS3L 
 
 out also that he told his breth- 
 ren a dream, that he had 
 dreamed : which occasioned 
 them to hate him the more. 
 And he said to them : Hear my 
 dream which I dreamed. I 
 thought we were binding 
 sheaves in the field; and my 
 sheaf arose as it were, and 
 stood, and your sheaves stand- 
 ing about, bowed down before 
 my sheaf. His brethren an- 
 swered : Shalt thou be our 
 king ? or shall we be subject to 
 thy dominion ? Therefore this 
 matter of his dreams and words 
 ministered nourishment to their 
 envy and hatred. And when 
 his brethren abode in Sichem, 
 feeding their father's flocks, 
 Israel said to him : Thy 
 brethren feed the sheep in 
 Sichem : come, I will send 
 thee to them. And w^hen 
 he answered : I am ready : he 
 said to him : Go, and see if all 
 things be well with thy breth- 
 ren, and the cattle : and bring 
 me word again what is doing. 
 So being sent from the vale of 
 Hebron, he came to Sichem : 
 and when they saw him afar 
 off, before he came nigh them, 
 they thought to kill him. And 
 said one to another: Behold 
 the dreamer cometh. Come, let 
 us kill him, and cast him into 
 some old pit : and we will say : 
 Some evil beast hath devoured 
 him : and then it shall appear 
 what his dreams avail him : 
 and Euben hearing this, en- 
 deavoured to deliver him out 
 of their hands, and said : Do 
 not take away his life, nor shed 
 
 his blood : but cast him into 
 this pit, that is in the wilder- 
 ness, and keep your hands 
 harmless ; now he said this, 
 being desirous to deliver him 
 out of their hands and to re- 
 store him to his father. And 
 as soon as he came to his breth- 
 ren, they forthwith stript him 
 of his outside coat, that was of 
 divers colours : and cast him 
 into an old pit, where there was 
 no water. And Juda said to 
 his brethren : what will it profit 
 us to kill our brother, and con- 
 ceal his blood? It is better 
 that he be sold to the Ismael- 
 ites, and that our hands be not 
 defiled : for he is our brother 
 and our flesh. His brethren 
 agreed to his words. And when 
 the Madianite merchants passed 
 by, they drew him out of the 
 pit, and sold him to the Ismael- 
 ites,for twenty pieces of silver : 
 and they led him into Egypt. 
 And they took his coat, and 
 dipped it in^the blood of a kid, 
 which they had killed : send- 
 ing some to carry it to their 
 father, and to say : This we 
 have found : see whether it be 
 thy son's coat, or not. And 
 the father acknowledging it, 
 said: It is my son's coat, an 
 evil wild beast hath eaten liim, 
 a beast hath devoured Joseph. 
 And tearing his garments, lie 
 put on sackcloth, mourning for 
 his son a long time. 
 
 (Num. 21. A. M. 2253.) Now 
 the people began- to be weary 
 of their journey and labour : 
 and speaking against God and 
 Moses, they said : Why didst 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 33 
 
 thou bring us out of Egypt, to 
 die in the wilderness ? There 
 is no bread, nor have we any 
 waters : our soul now loatheth 
 
 this \Qvy light food. Where- 
 fore the Lord sent among the 
 people fiery serpents, which bit 
 them and killed many of them. 
 
 LESSON SEVENTH. 
 
 ON THE INCARNATION AND REDEMPTION. 
 
 Q. Did God abandon man 
 after he fell into sin ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 89, No. 28. 
 
 (Gen. 3. A. M. L) The Lord 
 God said to the serpent : Be- 
 cause thou hast done this thing, 
 thou art cursed among all cat- 
 tle, and beasts of the earth : 
 upon thy breast shalt thou go, 
 and earth shalt thou eat all the 
 days of thy life. I will put en- 
 mities between thee and the 
 woman, and thy seed and her 
 seed : she shall crush thy head, 
 and thou shalt lie in wait for 
 her heel. 
 
 (Gen. 50. A. M. 2369.) Jo- 
 seph returned into Egypt with 
 his brethren, and all that were 
 in his company, after he had 
 buried his father. Now he be- 
 ing dead, his brethren were 
 afraid, and talked one with an- 
 other : Lest perhaps he should 
 remember the wrong he suf- 
 fered, and requite us all the 
 evil that we did to him. And 
 they sent a message to him, 
 saying: Thy father command- 
 ed us before he died, that we 
 should say thus much to thee 
 from him : I beseech thee to for- 
 get the wickedness of thy 
 brethren, and the sin and mal- 
 3 
 
 ice they practised against thee : 
 we also pray thee, to forgive 
 the servants of the God of thy 
 father this wickedness. And 
 when Joseph heard this, he 
 wept. And his brethren came 
 to him : and worshipping pros- 
 trate on the ground they said : 
 We are thy servants. And he 
 answered them : Fear not : can 
 we resist the will of God ? You 
 thought evil against me : but 
 God turned it into good, that 
 he might exalt me, as at present 
 you see, and might save many 
 people. Fear not : I will feed 
 you and your children. And he 
 comforted them, and spoke 
 gently and mildly. 
 
 (Ex. 2. A.M. 2433.) There 
 went a man of the house of 
 Levi ; and took a wife of his own 
 kindred. And she bore a son ; 
 and seeing him a goodly cMld^ 
 hid him three months. And 
 when she could hide him no 
 longer, she took a basket made 
 of bulrushes, and daubed it 
 with slime and pitch : and put 
 the little babe therein, and laid 
 him in the sedges b}" the river's 
 brink, his sister standing afar 
 oft*, and taking notice what 
 would be done. And behold 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 the daughter of Pharao came 
 down to wash herself in the 
 river : and her maids walked b}^ 
 the river's brink. And when 
 she saw the basket in the 
 sedges, she sent one of her 
 maids for it : and when it was 
 brought, she opened it and see- 
 ing within it an infant crying, 
 having compassion on it she 
 said : This is one of the babes of 
 the Hebrews. And the child's 
 sister said to her : Shall I go 
 and call to thee a Hebrew w^om- 
 an, to nurse the babe? She 
 answered : Go. The maid 
 went and called her mother. 
 And Pharao's daughter said to 
 her : Take this child and nurse 
 him for me : I will give thee 
 thy wages. The woman took, 
 and nursed the child : and when 
 he was grown up, she delivered 
 him to Pharao's daughter. And 
 she adopted him for a son, and 
 called him Moses, saying : Be- 
 cause I took him out of the 
 water. 
 
 (I. Kings 25. A. M. 2947.) 
 Now the name of the man was 
 Nabal : and the name of his wife 
 was Abigail. And when David 
 heard in the wilderness, that 
 Nabal was shearing his sheep, 
 he sent ten young men, and 
 said to them : Go up to Car- 
 mel, and go to Nabal, and 
 salute him in my name with 
 peace. And when David's 
 servants came, they spoke to 
 Nabal all these words in David's 
 name : and then held their 
 peace. But Nabal answering 
 the servants of David, said : 
 Who is David ? and what is the 
 
 son of Isai ? servants are multi- 
 plied now a days who flee from 
 their masters. So the servants 
 of David w^ent back their way, 
 and returning came and told 
 him all the words that he said. 
 Then David said to his young 
 men : Let every man gird on 
 his sw^ord. And they girded 
 on every man his sword. And 
 David also girded on his sword : 
 and there followed David about 
 four hundred men : and two 
 hundred remained with the 
 baggage. But one of the serv- 
 ants told Abigail the wife of 
 Nabal, saying: Behold David 
 sent messengers out of the 
 wilderness, to salute our mas- 
 ter : and he rejected them. 
 These men were very good to 
 us, and gave us no trouble : 
 neither did we ever lose any 
 thing all the time that we con- 
 versed with them in the desert. 
 They were a wall unto us both 
 by night and day, all the while 
 we were with them keeping the 
 sheep. Wherefore consider, and 
 think what thou hast to do : for 
 evil is determined against th}'- 
 husband, and against thy house. 
 Then Abigail made haste and 
 coming down to the foot of the 
 mountain, David and his men 
 came down over-against her, 
 and she met them. And she 
 fell at his feet, and said : Upon 
 me let this iniquity be, my 
 Lord : let thy handmaid speak, 
 I beseech, in thy ears : and hear 
 the words of thy servant. This 
 shall not be an occasion of grief 
 to thee, and a scruple of heart 
 to my lord, that thou hast shed 
 
CATECHISM, 
 
 35 
 
 innocent blood, or hast revenged 
 th3^self: and when the Lord 
 shall have done well by my lord, 
 thou shalt remember thy hand- 
 maid. And David said to Abi- 
 gail : Blessed be the Lord the 
 God of Israel, who sent thee 
 this day to meet me, and blessed 
 be thy speech : and blessed be 
 thou, who hast kept me to-day, 
 from coming to blood, and re- 
 venging me with my own hand. 
 
 Q. Who is the Redeemer ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 70, No. 1. 
 
 (Apoc. 19.) I saw heaven 
 opened, and behold a white 
 horse ; and he that sat upon him 
 was called faithful and true, 
 and with justice doth he judge 
 and light. And his eyes were 
 as a flame of fire, and on his 
 head were many diadems, and 
 he had a name written, which 
 no man knoweth but himself. 
 And he was clothed with a gar- 
 ment sprinkled with blood ; and 
 his name is called. The Word 
 of God. And the armies that 
 are in heaven followed him on 
 white horses, clothed in fine 
 linen, wliite and clean. And 
 out of his mouth proceedeth a 
 sharp two-edged sword ; that 
 with it he may strike the na- 
 tions. And he shall rule them 
 with a rod of iron ; and he 
 treadeth the wine-press of the 
 fierceness of the wrath of God 
 the Almighty. And he hath on 
 his garment, and on his thigh 
 written : Kinoj of Kinofs, and 
 Lord of Lords. And I saw an 
 Angel standing in the sun, and 
 he cried with a loud voice, say- 
 
 ing to all the birds that did fly 
 through the midst of heaven : 
 Come, gather yourselves to- 
 gether to the great supper of 
 God : that you may eat the 
 flesh of kings and the flesh 
 of tribunes, and the flesh of 
 mighty men, and the flesh of 
 horses, and of them that sit on 
 them, and the flesh of all free- 
 men and bondmen, and of little 
 and of great. And I saw the 
 beast, and the kings of the 
 earth, and their armies gathered 
 together to make war with him 
 that sat upon the horse, and 
 with his army. And the beast 
 was taken, and with him the 
 false prophet, who wrought 
 signs before him, wherewith he 
 seduced them who received the 
 character of the beast, and who 
 adored his image. These two 
 were cast alive into the pool of 
 fire, burning with brimstone. 
 And the rest were slain by the 
 sword of him that sitteth upon 
 the horse, which proceedeth out 
 of his mouth ; and all the birds 
 were filled with their flesh. 
 
 (Gen. 42-45. A. M. 2296.) 
 Jacob hearing that food was 
 sold in Egypt, said to his sons : 
 Go ye down, and buy us neces- 
 saries, that we may live, and 
 not be consumed with want. So 
 the ten brethren of Joseph went 
 down, to buy corn in Egj^pt : 
 whilst Benjamin was kept at 
 home by Jacob. Now Joseph 
 was governor in the land of 
 Egypt, and corn was sold b}^ his 
 direction to the people. And 
 when his brethren had bowed 
 down to him, and he knew 
 
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 CATECBIS3L 
 
 them, he spoke as it were to 
 strangers somewhat roughly, 
 askmg them ; Whence came 
 3^ou? They answered: From 
 the land of Chanaan, to buy 
 necessaries of life. And though 
 he knew his brethren, he was 
 not known by them. He saith : 
 This is it that I say : You ai-e 
 spies. If you be peaceable 
 men, let one of your brethren 
 be bound in prison : and go ye 
 your ways and csirvy the corn 
 that you have bought, unto 
 your houses. And bring your 
 youngest brother to me, that I 
 may find your words to be 
 true, and you may not die. 
 They did as he had said. And 
 they talked one to another : 
 We deserve to suffer these 
 things, because we have sinned 
 against our brother, seeing the 
 anguish of his soul, when he 
 besought us, and we would not 
 hear : therefore is this affliction 
 come upon us. And they knew 
 not that Joseph understood, be- 
 cause he spoke to them by an 
 Interpreter. And he turned 
 himself away a little while, and 
 wept : and returning he spoke 
 to them. And taking Simeon, 
 and binding him in their pres- 
 ence, he commanded his serv- 
 ants to fill their sacks with 
 wheat, and to put every man's 
 money again in their sacks, 
 and to give them besides pro- 
 visions for the way : and thev 
 did so. And they came to 
 Jacob their father in the land 
 of Chanaan, and they told him 
 all things that had befallen 
 them. When they had told 
 
 this, they poured out their corn, 
 and every man found his mon- 
 ey tied in the mouth of his 
 sack : and all being astonished 
 together, their father Jacob 
 said : My son shall not go 
 down with you : his brother is 
 dead, and he is left alone : if 
 any mischief befall him in the 
 land to which you go, 3^ou will 
 bring down my gray hairs with 
 sorrow to hell. In the mean- 
 time the famine was heavy upon 
 all the land. And Juda said 
 to his father : Send the boy 
 with me, that we may set for- 
 ward, and may live : lest both 
 we and our children perish. 
 Then Israel said to them : If it 
 must needs be so, do what you 
 will : take of the best fruits of 
 the land in your vessels, and 
 carry down presents to the 
 man. So the men took the 
 presents, and double money, 
 and Benjamin : and went down 
 into Egypt, and stood before 
 Joseph. And Joseph com- 
 manded the steward of his 
 house, saying : Fill their sacks 
 with corn, as much as they can 
 hold : and put the money of 
 exery one in the top of his 
 sack. And in the mouth of the 
 younger's sack put my silver 
 cup, and the price which he gave 
 for the wheat. And it was so 
 done. And when they were 
 now departed out of the city, 
 and had gone forward a little 
 way ; Joseph sending for the 
 steward of his house, said : 
 Arise, and pursue after the men: 
 and when thou hast overtaken 
 them, say to them : Why have 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 37 
 
 you returned evil for good ? 
 The cup which you have stolen, 
 is that in which my lord drink- 
 eth, and in which he is wont to 
 divine ; 3^ou have done a very 
 evil thing. He did as he had 
 commanded him. And having 
 overtaken them, he spoke to 
 them the same words. Which 
 when he had searched, begin- 
 ing at the eldest and ending at 
 the 3^oungest, he found tlie cup 
 in Benjamin's sack. And Juda 
 at the head of his brethren went 
 in to Joseph (for he was not 
 yet gone out of the place) and 
 they altogether fell down be- 
 fore him on the ground. And 
 Juda said to him: What shall 
 we answer my lord ? or what 
 shall we say, or be able justly 
 to allege? God hath found 
 out the iniquity of thy serv- 
 ants ; behold, we are all bond- 
 men to my lord, both we, and 
 he with whom the cup was 
 found. Joseph answered : God 
 forbid that I should do so : he 
 that stole the cup, he shall be 
 my bondman : and go you awa}^ 
 free to your father. Then Juda 
 coming nearer, said boldly : I 
 thy servant will stay instead of 
 the boy in the service of my 
 lord, and let the boy go up with 
 his brethren. For I cannot re- 
 turn to my father without the 
 boy, lest I be a witness of the 
 calamity that will oppress my 
 father. Joseph could no longer 
 refrain himself before many 
 that stood by : whereupon he 
 commanded that all should go 
 out, and no stranger be present 
 at their knowing one another. 
 
 And he lifted up his voice with 
 weeping, whicli the Egyptians 
 and all the house of Pharao 
 heard. And lie said to his 
 brethren ; I am Joseph : is my 
 father yet living? His breth- 
 ren could not answer him, be- 
 ing struck with exceeding great 
 fear. And he said mildly to 
 them : Come nearer to me. 
 And when they were come near 
 him, he said: I am Joseph, 
 your brother, whom you sold 
 into Egypt. And Joseph kissed 
 all his brethren, and wept upon 
 every one of them : after which 
 they were emboldened to speak 
 to him. And they went up out 
 of Egypt, and came into the 
 land of Chanaan to their father 
 Jacob. And they told him, 
 saying : Joseph thy son is liv- 
 ing : and he is ruler in all the 
 land of Egypt. Which when 
 Jacob heard, he awaked as it 
 were out of a deep sleep. And 
 he said : It is enough for me, 
 if Joseph my son be yet living : 
 I will go and see him before I 
 die. 
 
 (II. Kings 24. A. M. 2987.) 
 When the angel of the Lord had 
 stretched out his hand over Je- 
 rusalem to destroy it, the Lord 
 had pity on the affliction, and 
 said to the angel that slew the 
 people : It is enough : now hold 
 thy hand. And David said to 
 the Lord, when he saw the an- 
 gel striking the people : It is I, I 
 am he that have sinned, I have 
 done wicke<ily : these that are 
 the sheep, what have they done? 
 let thy hand, I beseech thee, be 
 turned against me, and against 
 
38 
 
 CATECHIS3L 
 
 my father's house. And Gad 
 came to David that day, and 
 said : Go up, and build an altar 
 to the Lord in the thrashing floor 
 of Areuna the Jebusite. And 
 David went up according to the 
 word of Gad which the Lord 
 had commanded him. And 
 Areuna said to David : Let my 
 lord the king take, and otfer, as 
 it seemeth good to him : thou 
 hast here oxen for a holocaust, 
 and the wain, and the yokes of 
 the oxen for wood. All these 
 things Areuna as a king gave 
 
 to the kins: : and Areuna said to 
 
 
 
 the king : The Lord thy God 
 receive thy vow. And the king 
 answered him, and said : Na}^, 
 but I will buy it of thee at a 
 ])rice, and I will not offer to the 
 Lord m}^ God holocausts free- 
 cost. So David bought the 
 floor, and the oxen, for fifty 
 sides of silver : and David built 
 there an altar to the Lord, and 
 oflfered holocausts and peace- 
 oflerings : and the Lord became 
 merciful to the land, and the 
 plague was staj^ed from Israel. 
 
 Q. What do you believe of 
 Jesus Christ ? 
 
 {See "L. of C.,"p. 35, No. 25. 
 
 (Gen. 25. A. M. 218.3.) Abra- 
 ham gave all his possessions to 
 Isaac. And to the children of 
 the concubines he gave gifts, and 
 separated them from Isaac his 
 son, while he 3"et lived, to the 
 east countrj^ 
 
 (Gen, 28. A. M. 2252.) Jacob 
 being departed from Bersabee, 
 vrent on to Haran. And when 
 he was come to a certain place, 
 
 and would rest in it after sunset, 
 he took of the stones that lay 
 there, and putting under his 
 head, slept in the same phice. 
 And he saw in his sleep a ladder 
 standing upon the earth, and the 
 top thereof touching heaven : 
 the angels also of God ascend- 
 ing and descending by it. And 
 the Lord leaning upon the lad- 
 der, saying to him : I am the 
 Lord God of Abraham thy 
 father, and the God of Isaac ; 
 The land, w^herein thou sleepest, 
 I w^ill give to thee and to thy 
 seed. And thy seed shall be as 
 the dust of the earth: thou 
 shalt spread abroad to the west, 
 and to the east, and to the 
 north, and to the south : and in 
 thee and thy seed all the tribes 
 of the earth shall be blessed. 
 And I will be thy keeper 
 whithersoever thou goest, and 
 will bring thee back into this 
 land : neither will I leave thee, 
 till I shall have accomplished all 
 that I have said. 
 
 (IIL King 6. A. M. 3000.) 
 Solomon made in the oracle 
 two cherubims of olive-tree, of 
 ten cubits in height. One wing 
 of the cherub was five cubits, 
 and the other wing of the cherub 
 w\as five cubits : that is, in 
 all ten cubits, from the ex- 
 tremity of one wing to the ex- 
 tremity of the other wing. The 
 second cherub also was ten cu- 
 bits : and the measure, and the 
 work was the same in both tlie 
 cherubims : that is to say, one 
 cherub was ten cubits high, and 
 in like manner the other cherub. 
 An4 he set tlie cherubims in the 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 39 
 
 midst of the inner temple : and 
 the cherubims stretched forth 
 their wings, and the wing of 
 the one touched one wall, and 
 the wing of the other cherub 
 touched the other wall : and the 
 other wings in the midst of the 
 temple touched one another. 
 
 Q. "Why is Jesus Christ true 
 God? 
 
 See '-L. ofC.,"p. 17, No. 1. 
 
 (Ex. 4. A. M. 2513.) Moses 
 answered and said : They will 
 not believe me, nor hear my 
 voice, but they will say : The 
 Lord hath not appeared to thee. 
 Then he said to him : What is 
 that thou boldest in thy hand ? 
 He answered : A rod. And 
 the Lord said : Cast it down 
 upon the ground. He cast it 
 down, and it was turned into a 
 serpent: so that Moses fled 
 from it. And the Lord said : 
 Put out thy hand and take it 
 by the tail. He put forth his 
 hand, and took hold of it, and 
 it was turned into a rod. That 
 the}^ may believe, saith he, that 
 the Lord God of their fathers, 
 the God of Abraham, the God 
 of Isaac, and the God of Ja- 
 cob, hath appeared to thee. 
 And the Lord said again : Put 
 thy hand into thy bosom. And 
 when he had put it into his 
 bosom, he brought it forth 
 leprous as snow. And he said : 
 Put back thy hand into thy 
 bosom. He put it back, and 
 brought it out again, and it 
 was like the other flesh. If 
 they will not believe thee, saith 
 he, nor hear the voice of the 
 
 former sign, they will believe 
 the word of the latter sisfn. 
 But if they will not even be- 
 lieve these two signs, nor hear 
 thy voice : take of the river 
 water, and pour it out upon 
 the dry land, and whatsoever 
 thou drawest out of the river, 
 shall be turned into blood. 
 
 (III. Kings 17. A.M. 3092.) 
 Elias the Thesbite of the in- 
 habitants of Galaad said to 
 Achab : As the Lord liveth the 
 God of Israel, in whose sight I 
 stand, there shall not be dew 
 nor rain these years, but ac- 
 cording to the words of my 
 mouth. And going, he dwelt 
 by the torrent Carith, which is 
 over-against the Jordan. And 
 the ravens brought him bread 
 and flesh in the morning, and 
 bread and flesh in the evening, 
 and he drank of the torrent. 
 But after some time the torrent 
 was dried up, for it had not 
 rained upon the earth. Then 
 the w^ord of the Lord came to 
 him, saying : Arise, and go to 
 Sarephta of the Sidonians, and 
 dwell there : for I have com- 
 manded a widow-woman there 
 to feed thee. He arose, and 
 went to Sarephta. And when 
 he was come to the gate of the 
 city, he saw the widow-woman 
 gathering sticks, and he called 
 her, and said to her : Give me a 
 little water in a vessel, that I 
 may drink. And w^hen she was 
 ofoinor to fetch it he called after 
 her, saying : Bring me also, I 
 beseech thee, a morsel of bread 
 in thy hand. And she an- 
 swered : As the Lord thy God 
 
40 
 
 CATECHISM. 
 
 liveth, I have no bread, but 
 only a handful of meal in a 
 pot, and a little oil in a cruse : 
 behold I am gathering two 
 sticks that 1 may go in and 
 dress it, for me and my son, 
 that we may eat it, and die. 
 And Elias said to her : Fear 
 not, but go, and do as thou hast 
 said : but first make for me of 
 the same meal a little hearth- 
 cake, and bring it to me : and 
 after make for thyself and thy 
 son. For thus saith the Lord 
 the God of Israel : The pot of 
 meal shall not waste, nor the 
 cruse of oil be diminished, until 
 the da}^ wherein the Lord will 
 give rain upon the face of the 
 earth. She went and did ac- 
 cording to the word of Elias : 
 and he eat, and she, and her 
 house : and from that day the 
 pot of meal wasted not, and 
 the cruse of oil was not dimin- 
 ished, according to the word of 
 the Lord, which he spoke in the 
 i^nd of Elias. And it came to 
 pass after this that the son of 
 the woman, the mistress of the 
 house, fell sick, and the sickness 
 was very grievous, so that 
 there was no breath left in 
 him. And she said to Elias : 
 "What have I to do with thee, 
 thou man of God ? art thou 
 come to me that my iniquities 
 should be remembered, and that 
 thou shouldst kill my son ? 
 And Elias said to her : Give me 
 thy son. And he took him out 
 of her bosom, and carried him 
 into the upper chamber where 
 he abode, and laid him upon his 
 own bed. And he cried to the 
 
 Lord, and said : Lord my 
 God, hast thou afflicted also the 
 widow, with whom I am after a 
 sort maintained, so as to kill 
 her son ? And he stretched, 
 and measured himself upon the 
 child three times, and cried to 
 the Lord, and said : O Lord my 
 God, let the soul of this child, 
 I beseech thee, return into his 
 body. And the Lord heard the 
 voice of Elias : and the soul of 
 the child returned into him, and 
 he revived. And Elias took 
 the child, and brought him 
 down from the upper chamber 
 to the house below, and de- 
 livered him to his mother, and 
 said to her : Behold thy son 
 liveth. And the woman said to 
 Elias : Now, by this I know 
 that thou art a man of God, 
 and the word of the Lord in 
 thy mouth is true. 
 
 Q. Why is Jesus Christ true 
 man? 
 
 See"L. of C," P- 42, No. 44. 
 
 (Jer.31. A.M. 3406.) Thus 
 saith the Lord : A voice was 
 heard on high of lamentation, 
 of mourning, and weeping, of 
 Rachel weeping for her chil- 
 dren, and refusing to be com- 
 forted for them, because they 
 are not. Thus saith the 
 Lord : Let thy voice cease from 
 weeping, and thy eyes from 
 tears : for there is a reward for 
 thy work, saith the Lord : and 
 they shall return out of the 
 land of the enemy. And there 
 is hope for th}^ last end, saith 
 the Lord : and the children 
 shall return to their own 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 41 
 
 borders. How long wilt thou 
 be dissolute in deliciousness, O 
 wandering daughter? (for the 
 Lord hath created a new thing 
 upon the earth ; A woman shall 
 compass a man.) 
 
 Q. Hew many natures are 
 there in Jesus Christ ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 25, No. 10; p. 56, Nos. 9, 
 10. 
 
 Q. Is Jesus Christ more than 
 one person ? 
 
 See ''L. of C," p. 91, No. 33. 
 
 Q. Was Jesus Christ al-ways 
 God? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 51, No. 12; p. 60.No. 18. 
 
 (Ex. 3. A. M. 2513.) Now 
 Moses fecj the sheep of Jethro 
 his father-in-law, the priest of 
 Madian : and he drove the flock 
 to the inner parts of the desert, 
 and came to the mountain of 
 God, Horeb. And the Lord 
 appeared to him in a flame of 
 Are out of the midst of a bush : 
 and he saw that the bush was 
 on fire and was not burnt. And 
 Moses said : I will go and see 
 this great sight, why the bush 
 is not burnt. And when the 
 Lord saw that he went forward 
 to see, he called to him out of 
 the midst of the bush, and 
 said : Moses, Moses. And he 
 answered : Hear I am. And he 
 said : Come not nigh hither, put 
 off* the shoes from thy feet : for 
 the place, whereon thou stand- 
 est is holy ground. And he 
 said : I am the God of th}^ 
 father, the God of Abraham, the 
 God of Isaac, and the God of 
 Jacob. Moses hid his face : for 
 be durst not looli at God. And 
 
 the Lord said to him : I have 
 seen the aflfliiction of my people 
 in Egypt, and I have heard 
 their cry because of the rigour 
 of them that are over the 
 works : and knowing their sor- 
 row, I am come down to de- 
 liver them out of the hands of 
 tlie Egyptians, and to bring 
 them out of that land into a 
 good and spacious land, into a 
 land that floweth with milk and 
 honey, to the places of the 
 Chanaanite, and Hethite, and 
 Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and 
 Hevite, and Jebusite. For the 
 cry of the children of Israel is 
 come unto me : and I have seen 
 their affliction, wherewith they 
 are oppressed by the Egyptians. 
 But come, and I will send thee 
 to Pharao, that thou mayst 
 bring forth my people the chil- 
 dren of Israel out of Egypt. 
 
 Q. "Was Jesus Christ al-ways 
 man? 
 
 (Gal. 4.) Now I say, as long 
 as the heir is a child, he dif- 
 fereth nothing from a servant, 
 though he be lord of all : but 
 is under tutors and governors 
 until the time appointed by the 
 father: so we also, when we 
 were children, were serving 
 under the elements of the 
 world. But when the fulness 
 of the time was come, God sent 
 his Son, made of a woman, 
 made under the law : that he 
 might redeem them who were 
 under the law : that we might 
 receive the adoption of sons. 
 And because you are sons, God 
 hath sent the Spirit of his Son 
 
42 
 
 CATECHISM. 
 
 into your hearts, crying : Abba, 
 Father. Therefore now he is 
 not a servant, but a son. And 
 if a son, an heir also through 
 God. 
 
 Q. "What do you mean by 
 the Incarnation ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 89, No. 29. 
 (Phil. 2.) Christ being in 
 the form of God, thought it 
 not robbery to be equal with 
 God : but emptied himself, 
 taking the form of a servant, 
 being made in the likeness of 
 men, and in habit found as a 
 man. 
 
 Q. TLow ^was the Son of Grod 
 made man ? 
 
 See " L of C," p. 8, No. 4; p. 10, No. 8. 
 
 (Ruth A. M. 2706.) In 
 the days of one of the judges, 
 when the judges ruled, there 
 came a famine in the land. 
 And a certain man of Bethle- 
 hem Jnda, went to sojourn in 
 the land of Moab with his 
 wife and his two sons. And 
 Elimelech the husband of 
 Noemi died : and she remained 
 with her sons. And they took 
 wives of the women of Moab, of 
 which one was called Orpha, 
 and the other Ruth. And they 
 dwelt there ten 3^ears. And 
 they both died, to wit, Mahalon 
 and Chelion: and the woman 
 was left alone, having lost both 
 her sons and her husband. 
 And she arose to go from the 
 land of Moab to her own 
 country with both her daugh- 
 ters-in-law : she said to them : 
 Go ye home to your mothers, 
 the Lord deal mercifully with 
 
 you, as you have dealt with the 
 dead and with me. And she 
 kissed them. And they lifted 
 up their voice and began to 
 weep, and to say : We will 
 go on with thee to thy people. 
 But she answered them : Re- 
 turn, my daughters, why come 
 ye with me ? And they lifted 
 up their voice, and began to 
 weep again : Orpha kissed her 
 mother-in-law and returned : 
 Ruth stuck close to her mother- 
 in-law. And Ruth the Moab- 
 itess said to her mother-in- 
 law : Be not against me, to de- 
 sire that I should leave thee 
 and depart: for whithersoever 
 thou shalt go, I will go: and 
 where thou shalt dwell, I also 
 will dwell. Thy people shall he 
 my people, and thy God my 
 God. So Noemi came with 
 Ruth the Moabitess her daugh- 
 ter-in-law, from the land of her 
 sojournment : and returned into 
 Bethlehem, in the beginning of 
 the barley harvest. And Ruth 
 the Moabitess said to her 
 mother-in-law : If thou wilt, I 
 will go into the field, and glean 
 the ears of corn that escape the 
 hands of the reapers. She 
 went therefore. And it hap- 
 pened that the owner of that 
 field was Booz, who was of the 
 kindred of Elimelech. And 
 Booz said to Ruth: Hear nie, 
 daughter, do not go to glean in 
 any otlier field, and do not de- 
 pa,rt from this place : but keep 
 with my maids. And she said : 
 I have found grace in thy eyes, 
 my lord, who hast comforted 
 me and hast spoken to the 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 43 
 
 heart of thy handmaid, who 
 am not like to one of thy 
 maids. And Booz commanded 
 his servants, saying : If she 
 would even reap with you, 
 hinder her not ; and let fall 
 some of your handfuls of pur- 
 pose, and leave them, that she 
 may gather them without 
 shame, and let no man rebuke 
 her when she gathereth them. 
 She gleaned therefore three 
 bushels, which she took up and 
 returned into the city, and 
 showed it to her mother-in-law : 
 moreover she brought out, and 
 gave her of the remains of her 
 meat, wherewith she had been 
 filled. And when Booz had 
 eaten, and drunk, and was 
 merry, he went to sleep by the 
 heap of sheaves, and she came 
 softly and uncovering his feet, 
 laid herself down. And he 
 said to her: Who art thou? 
 And she answered : I am Ruth 
 thy handmaid: spread thy 
 coverlet over thy servant, for 
 thou art a near kinsman. And 
 he said: Fear not therefore, 
 but whatsoever thou shalt say 
 to me I will do to thee. For 
 all the people that dwell 
 within the gates of nay city, 
 know that thou art a virtu- 
 ous woman. Neither do I 
 deny myself to be near of kin, 
 but there is another nearer than 
 I. Rest thou this night : and 
 when morning is come, if he 
 will take thee by the right of 
 kindred, all is well : but if he 
 will not, I will undoubtedly 
 take thee, as the Lord liveth. 
 And again he said : Spread thy 
 
 mantle, wherewith thou art 
 covered, and hold it with both 
 hands. And when she spread 
 it and held it, he measured six 
 measures of barle}^, and laid it 
 upon her. And she carried it 
 and went into the cit3^ Then 
 Booz went up to the gate, and 
 sat there. And when he had 
 seen the kinsman going by, of 
 whom he had spoken before, he 
 said to him, calling him by his 
 name: Turn aside lor a little 
 while, and sit down here. They 
 sat down, and he spoke to the 
 kinsman : Noemi, who is re- 
 turned from the country of 
 Moab, will sell a parcel of land 
 that belonged to our brother 
 Elimelech. When thou shalt 
 buy the field at the woman's 
 hand, thou must take also 
 Ruth the Moabitess, who was 
 the wufe of the deceased : to 
 raise up the name of thy kins- 
 man in his inheritance. He 
 answered : I ^ield up my right 
 of next akin : for I must not 
 cut off the posterity of my own 
 family. Do thou make use of 
 my privilege, which I profess I 
 do willingly forego. Booz 
 therefore took Ruth, and mar- 
 ried her: and the Lord gave 
 her to bear a son. And Noemi 
 taking the child laid it in her 
 bosom, and she carried it, and 
 was a nurse unto it. And the 
 women her neighbours, con- 
 gratulated with her. 
 
 Q. Is the Blessed Virgin 
 Mary truly the Mother of 
 God. 
 
 See "L. of C.,'' p. 13, No 16: p. 38, No. 
 29; p. 64, No. 25; p. 116, No. 7. 
 
44 
 
 CATECHISM. 
 
 (Num. 36. A. M. 2553.) 
 Moses answered the children of 
 Israel, and said by the com- 
 mand of the Lord : this is the 
 law promulgated by the Lord 
 touching the daughters of 
 Salphaad: Let them marry 
 to whom they will, only so that 
 it be to men of their own tribe. 
 Lest the possession of the chil- 
 dren of Israel be mingled from 
 tribe to tribe. For all men 
 shall marry wives of their own 
 tribe /and kindred: and all 
 women shall take husbands of 
 the same tribe: that the in- 
 heritance may remain in the 
 families, and that the tribes 
 be not mingled one with an- 
 other, but remain so, as they 
 were separated by the Lord. 
 
 (IIL Kings 2. A. M. 2000.) 
 Adonias the son of Haggith 
 came to Bethsabee the mother 
 of Solomon. And she said to 
 him : Is thy coming peaceable ? 
 he answered : Peaceable. And 
 he added : I have a word to 
 speak with thee. She said to 
 him : Speak. And he said : I 
 pray thee speak to king Sol- 
 omon (for he cannot deny thee 
 any thing) to give me Abisag 
 the Sunamitess to wife. And 
 Bethsabee said : Well, I will 
 speak for thee to the king. Then 
 Bethsabee came to king Solo- 
 mon, to speak to him for Ado- 
 nias : and the king arose to meet 
 her, and bowed to her, and sat 
 down upon his throne : and a 
 throne was set for the king's 
 mother, and she sat on his right 
 hand. And she said to him : I 
 desire one small petition of 
 
 thee, do not put me to con- 
 fusion. And the king said to 
 her : My mother, ask : for I 
 must not turn away thy face. 
 
 (Cant. 2.) Behold my be- 
 loved speaketh to me : Arise, 
 make haste, my love, my dove, 
 my beautiful one, and come. 
 For winter is now past, the 
 rain is over and gone. The 
 flowers have appeared in our 
 land, the time of pruning is 
 come : the voice of the turtle is 
 heard in our land : the fig-tree 
 hath put forth her green figs : 
 the vines in flower yield their 
 sweet smell. Arise, my love, 
 my beautiful one, and come. 
 
 (Isa. 7. A. M. 3262.) The 
 Lork spoke to Achaz, saying : 
 Ask thee a sign of the Lord 
 thy God, either unto the depth 
 of hell, or unto the height 
 above. And Achaz said : I will 
 not ask, and I will not tempt 
 the Lord. And he said : Hear 
 ye therefore, house of David: 
 Is it a small thing for you to 
 be grievous to men, that j^ou 
 are grievous to my God also ? 
 Therefore the Lord himself shall 
 give 3^ou a sign. Behold a vir- 
 gin shall conceive, and bear a 
 son, and his name shall be call- 
 ed Emmanuel. 
 
 Q. Did the Son of G-od be- 
 come man immediately af- 
 ter the sin of our first par- 
 ents ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 87. No. 22; p. 88. Nos. 
 24, 25. 
 
 (Heb. 9.) Jesus is not en- 
 tered into the Holies made with 
 hands, the patterns of the true: 
 but into heaven itself, that he 
 
CATECHIS3I. 
 
 45 
 
 may appear now in the pres- 
 ence of God for us. Nor yet 
 that be should offer himself 
 often, as the high priest enter- 
 eth into the Holies, every year 
 with the blood of others : for 
 then he ought to have suffered 
 often from the beginning of the 
 world : but now once at the 
 end of ages, he hath appeared 
 for the destruction of sin, by 
 the sacrifice of himself And 
 as it is appointed unto men 
 once to die, and after this the 
 judgment: so also Christ was 
 offered once to exhaust the sins 
 of many ; the second time he 
 shall appear without sin to them 
 that expect him unto salvation. 
 
 Q. Ho^^ could they be saved 
 who lived before the Son of 
 God became man ? 
 
 See "L. of C," P- 15, No. 1. 
 
 (Gen. 21. A. M. 2113.) When 
 Sara had seen the son of Agar 
 the Egpytian playing with 
 Isaac her son, she said to Abra- 
 ham : Cast out this bondwoman, 
 and her son : for the son of the 
 bondwoman shall not be heir 
 with my son Isaac. Abraham 
 took this grievously for his son. 
 And God said to him : Let it 
 not seem grievous to thee for 
 the boy, and for thy bond- 
 woman : in all that Sara hath 
 said to thee, liearken to her 
 voice : for in Isaac shall thy 
 seed be called. But I will make 
 the son also of the bond-woman 
 a great nation, because he is 
 thy seed. So Abraham rose up 
 in the morning, and taking 
 bread and a bottle of water, put 
 
 it upon her shoulder, and de- 
 livered the boy, and sent her 
 away. And she departed, and 
 wandered in the wilderness 
 of Bersabee. And when the 
 water in the bottle was spent, 
 she cast the boy under one of 
 the trees that were there. And 
 she went her wa}^, and sat over- 
 against him a great way off as 
 far as a bow can carry, for she 
 said : I will not see the boy 
 die : and sitting over-against, 
 she lifted up her voice and 
 wept. And God heard the voice 
 of the boy : and an angel of 
 God called to Agar from heav- 
 en, sa3'ing : What art thou do- 
 ing. Agar ? fear not : for God 
 hath heard the voice of the boy, 
 from the place wherein he is. 
 Arise, take up the boy, and 
 hold him by the hand : for I 
 will m^ake him a great nation. 
 And God opened her eyes : and 
 she saw a well of water, and 
 went and filled the bottle, and 
 gave the boy to drink. And 
 God was with him : and he 
 grew and dwelt in the wilder- 
 ness. 
 
 Q. On what day vras the Son 
 of Grod conceived and made 
 man? 
 
 See"L. of C.,"p.8, No. 4. 
 
 Q. On -what day was Christ 
 born? 
 
 See "L. of C.."p. 10, No. 9. 
 
 (Mic. 5.) And thou, Beth- 
 lehem Ephrata, art a little one 
 among the thousands of Juda : 
 out of thee shall he come forth 
 unto me that is to be the ruler 
 in Israel : and his going forth 
 
46 
 
 CATECHISM, 
 
 is from the beginning, from the I 
 days of eternity. 
 
 Q. How long did Christ live 
 . on earth ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 12, No. 12; p. 13, Nos. 
 13, 15 ; p. 54, No. 2. 
 
 (Gen. 39. A. M. 2286.) Jo- 
 seph was brought into Egypt, 
 and Putiphar an eunuch of 
 Pharao, chief captain of the 
 army, an Egyptian, bought him 
 of tiie Ismaelites, iDy whonv he 
 was brouoht. And the Lord 
 was with him, and he was a 
 prosperous man in all things : 
 and lie dwelt in his master's 
 house, who knew ver}" well 
 that the Lord was with him, 
 and made all that he did to 
 
 prosper in his hand. And 
 Joseph found favour in the sight 
 of his master, and ministered 
 to him : and being set over all 
 by him, he governed the house 
 committed to him, and all 
 things that were delivered to 
 him : and the Lord blessed 
 the house of the Egyptian for 
 Joseph's sake, and multii)lied 
 all his substance, both at home, 
 and in the fields. Neither knew 
 he any other thing, but the 
 bread w^hich he ate. And 
 Jose[)h was of a beautiful coun- 
 tenance, and comely to behold. 
 
 Q. "Why did Christ live so 
 long on earth ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 23, No. 8: p. 25, No. 11; 
 p. 27, No. 15 ; p. 47, No. 1 ; p. 53, No. 20. 
 
 LESSON EIGHTH, 
 
 ON OUR lord's passion, DEATH, RESURRECTION, AND ASCENSION. 
 
 Q. 'What did Jesus Christ 
 suffer ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 52, No. 14: p. 97. No, 45; 
 p. 99. No. 3 ; p 108, Nos. 1 . 2 ; p. 109, No. 3 ; 
 !>. no. No. 1; p. Ill, No. 6; ]). 313, Nos. 
 3. 4; p. 114. No. 5; p. 115, Cpt. vii., Nos. 
 3,2. 
 
 (Isa. 53.) He shall grow up 
 as a tender plant before him, 
 and as a root out of a thirst}^ 
 ground : there is no beauty in 
 him, nor comeliness: and we 
 have seen him, and there was 
 no sightliness, that we should 
 be desirous of him : despised, 
 and the most abject of men, a 
 man of sorrows, and acquainted 
 with infirmity : and his look 
 was as it were hidden and de- 
 
 spised, whereupon we esteemed 
 him not. Surely lie hath borne 
 our infirmities and carried our 
 sorrows : and we have thought 
 him as it were a leper, and as 
 one struck bj' God and aflflicted. 
 But he was wounded for our 
 iniquities, he was bruised for 
 our sins : the chastisement of 
 our peace luas upon him, and by 
 his bruises we are healed. All 
 we like sheep have gone astra}^ 
 every one hath turned aside in- 
 to his own way : and the Lord 
 hath laid on him the iniquity 
 of us all. He was offered be- 
 cause it was his own will, and 
 he opened not his mouth : he 
 
CATECHISM, 
 
 47 
 
 shall be led as a sheep to the 
 slaughter, and shall be dumb as 
 a lamb before his shearer, and 
 he shall not open his mouth. 
 He was taken away from dis- 
 tress, and from judgment : who 
 shall declare his generation ? 
 because he is cut off out of the 
 land of the living : for the 
 wickedness of my people have 
 I struck him. 
 
 Q. On -what day did Christ 
 die? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 116, No. 8. 
 
 Q. Why do you call that day 
 **good" on which Christ 
 died so sorrowful a death ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 59, No. 16. 
 
 (Num. 20. A. M. 2252.) The 
 children of Israel, and all the 
 multitude came into the desert 
 of Sin, in the first month : and 
 the people abode in Cades. 
 And Mary died there, and was 
 buried in the same place. And 
 the people wanting water, came 
 toojether ao;ainst Moses and 
 Aaron : and making a sedi- 
 tion, i\iQj said : Would God 
 we had perished among our 
 brethren before the Lord. 
 Moses therefore took the rod, 
 which was before the Lord, as 
 he had commanded him, and 
 having gathered together the 
 multitude before the rock, he 
 said to them : Hear, 3^e rebel- 
 lious and incredulous : Can we 
 bring you forth water out of 
 this rock ? When Moses had 
 lifted up his hand, and struck 
 the rock twice with the rod, 
 there came forth water in great 
 
 abundance, so that the people 
 and their cattle drank. 
 
 Q. 'Where did Christ die ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 115, Cpt. vii., No, 1, 
 
 Q. How did Christ die ? 
 
 See "L. of C. " p. 87, No. 21 ; p. 11.5, Cpt. 
 vii., Nos. 2, 3 ; p. 116, Nos. 4-8. 
 
 (Num. 21. A. M. 2553.) The 
 Israelites marched from mount 
 Hor, by the wa}^ that leadeth 
 to the Red Sea, to compass the 
 land of Edom. And the people 
 began to be weary of their jour- 
 ney and labour: and speaking 
 against God and Moses, they 
 said : Why didst thou bring us 
 out of Egypt, to die in the 
 wilderness ? There is no bread, 
 nor have we any waters : our 
 soul now loatheth this veiy 
 light food. Wherefore the Lord 
 sent among the people fiery 
 serpents, which bit them and 
 killed many of them. Upon 
 which they came to Moses, and 
 said : We have sinned, because 
 we have spoken against the 
 Lord and thee ; pray that he 
 ma}^ take away these serpents 
 from us. And Moses prayed 
 for the people. And the Lord 
 said to him : Make a brazen 
 serpent, and set it up for a 
 sign: whosoever being struck 
 shall look on it, shall live. 
 Moses therefore made a brazen 
 serpent, and set it up for a 
 sign : which when they that 
 were bitten looked upon, they 
 were healed. 
 
 (Josh. 10. A.M. 2553.) Then 
 Josue spoke to the Lord, in the 
 day that he delivered the 
 Amorrhite in the sight of the 
 
48 
 
 CATECHISM. 
 
 children of Israel, and he said 
 before them : Move not, O sun, 
 toward Gabaen, nor thou, O 
 moon, toward the valley of 
 Ajalon. And the sun and the 
 moon stood still, till the people 
 revenged themselves of their 
 enemies. Is not this written in 
 the book of the just? So the 
 sun stood still in the midst of 
 heaven, and hasted not to go 
 down the space of one day. 
 There was not before nor after 
 so long a day, the Lord obey- 
 ing the voice of a man, and 
 fighting for Israel. 
 
 Q. "Why did Christ suffer and 
 die? 
 
 See ''L. of C," p. 70, No. 3. 
 
 (Gen. 22. A.M. 2135.) After 
 these things, God tempted Abra- 
 ham, and said to him : Abra- 
 ham, Abraham. And he an- 
 swered : Here I am. He said 
 to him: Take thy only begotten 
 son Isaac, whom thou lovest, 
 and go into the land of vision : 
 and there thou shalt offer him 
 for an holocaust upon one of 
 mountains which I will shew 
 thee. So Abraham rising up 
 in the night, saddled his ass : 
 and took with him two young 
 men, anc^ Isaac his son : and 
 when he had cut wood for the 
 holocaust he went his way to 
 the place which God had com- 
 manded him. And on the third 
 day, lifting up his eyes, he saw 
 the place afar off. And he said 
 to his 3'oung men ; Stay you 
 here with the . ass : I and the 
 boy will go with speed as far 
 as yonder, and after we have 
 
 worshipped, will return to you. 
 And he took the wood for the 
 holocaust, and laid it upon 
 Isaac his son and he himself 
 carried in his hands fire and a 
 sword. And as they two went 
 on together, Isaac said to his 
 father : My father. And he 
 answered: What wilt thou, 
 son ? Behold, saith he, fire and 
 wood : where is the victim for 
 the holocaust ? And Abraham 
 said : God will provide him- 
 self a victim for an holocaust, 
 my son. So they went on to- 
 gether. And they came to the 
 place which God had shewn 
 him, where he built an altar, 
 and laid the wood in order up- 
 on it ; and when he had bound 
 Isaac his son, he laid him on 
 the altar upon the pile of wood. 
 And he put forth his hand and 
 took the sword, to sacrifice his 
 son. And behold an Angel of 
 the Lord from heaven called to 
 him, saying : Abraham, Abra- 
 ham. And he answered ; Here 
 I am. And he said to him : 
 Lay not thy hand upon the 
 boy, neither do thou anything 
 to him : now I know that thou 
 fearest God, and hast not spared 
 thy only begotten son for 
 my sake. Abraham lifted up 
 his eyes, and saw behind his 
 back a ram amongst the briars 
 sticking fast by the horns, 
 which he took and offered for a 
 holocaust instead of his son. 
 
 (Ex.17.) So the people were 
 thirsty there for want of water, 
 and murmured against Moses, 
 sajang : Why didst thou make 
 us go forth out of Egypt, to 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 49 
 
 kill us and our children, and 
 our beasts with thirst ? And 
 Moses cried to the Lord, say- 
 ing: What shall I do to this 
 people ? Yet a little more and 
 tiiey will stone me. And the 
 Lord said to Moses : Go before 
 the people, and take with thee 
 of the ancients of Israel : and 
 take in thy hand the rod where- 
 with thou didst strike the 
 river, and go. Behold I will 
 stand there before thee, upon 
 the rock Horeb : and thou 
 shalt strike the rock, and water 
 shall come out of it that the 
 people may drink. Moses did 
 so before the ancients of Israel. 
 (lY. Kings 6. A. M. 3116.) 
 The sons of the prophets said 
 to Eliseus : Behold the place 
 where we dwell with thee is too 
 strait for us. Let us go as far 
 as the Jordan and take out of 
 the wood every man a piece of 
 timber, that we may build us 
 there a place to dwell in. And 
 he said : Go. And one of them 
 said : But come thou also with 
 thy servants. He answered : I 
 will come. So he went with 
 them. And when they were 
 come to the Jordan they cut 
 down wood. And it happened, 
 as one was felling some timber, 
 that the head of the axe fell 
 into the water : and he cried 
 out, and said : Alas, alas, alas, 
 my lord, for this same was bor- 
 rowed. And the man of God 
 said : Where did it fall ? and 
 he shewed him the place. Then 
 he cut off a piece of wood, and 
 cast it in thither : and the iron 
 swam. 
 
 Q. What lessons do we 
 learn from the sufferings 
 and death of Christ ? 
 
 See "L. oIC.,'" p. 78, No. 22. 
 
 (Titus 2.) The grace of 
 God our Saviour hath appeared 
 to all men ; instructing us, that, 
 denying ungodliness and world- 
 ly desires, we should live 
 soberly, and justly, and godly 
 in this world, looking for the 
 blessed hope and coming of 
 the glory of the great God and 
 our Saviour Jesus Christ, who 
 gave himself for us, that he 
 might redeem us from all 
 iniquity, and might cleanse to 
 himself a people acceptable, a 
 pursuer of good works. 
 
 Q. "Whither did Christ's soul 
 go after His Death ? 
 
 (Apoc. 6. A. D. 64.) When 
 he had opened the fifth seal, 
 I saw under the altar the souls 
 of them that w^ere slain for the 
 word of God, and for the testi- 
 mony which they held. And 
 they cried with a loud voice, 
 saying : How long, Lord 
 (holy and true) dost thou not 
 judge and revenge our blood 
 on them that dwell on the 
 earth ? And white robes were 
 given to every one of them 
 one; and it was said to them, 
 that they should rest for a lit- 
 tle time, till their fellow-serv- 
 ants, and their brethren, who 
 are to be slain, even as they, 
 should be filled up. 
 
 Q. Did Christ's soul descend 
 into the hell of the damned ? 
 
 See "L. of C/'p. 126, No. 25. 
 
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 CATECHISM, 
 
 Q. Why did Christ descend 
 into Limbo ? 
 
 (Apoc. 1.) One of the an- 
 cients answered, and said to 
 me : These that are clothed in 
 white robes, who are they ? 
 and whence came they ? And 
 I said to him ; My Lord, thou 
 knowest. And he said to me : 
 These are they who are come 
 out of great tribulation, and 
 have washed their robes, and 
 have made them w^hite in the 
 blood of the Lamb. Therefore 
 they are before the throne of 
 God, and they serve him day 
 and night in his temple : and 
 he, that sitteth on the throne, 
 shall dwell over them. They 
 shall no more hunger nor thirst, 
 neither shall the sun fall on 
 them, nor any heat. For the 
 Lamb, which is in the midst of 
 the throne, shall rule them, and 
 shall lead them to the fountains 
 of the waters of life, and God 
 shall wipe away all tears from 
 their eyes. 
 
 Q. 'Where was Christ's body 
 while his soul was in 
 Limbo ? 
 
 See*'L. of C," p. 117, No. 10. 
 
 Q. On what day did Christ 
 rise from the dead ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 118, No. 11; p. 119, No.l. 
 
 (Zach. 3. A. M. 3485.) The 
 Lord shewed me Jesus the 
 high priest standing before the 
 Angel of the Lord : and satan 
 stood on his right hand to be 
 his adversary. And the Lord 
 said to satan : The Lord rebuke 
 thee, satan : and the Lord 
 that chose Jerusalem rebuke 
 
 thee : Is not this a brand 
 pluckt out of the fire ? And 
 Jesus was clothed with filthy 
 garments : and he stood before 
 the face of the Angel. Who 
 answered, and said to them 
 that stood before him, sa3ing : 
 Take away the filthy garments 
 from him. And he said to him : 
 Behold I have taken away thy 
 iniquity, and have clothed thee 
 with change of garments. And 
 he said : Put a clean mitre 
 upon his head : and they put a 
 clean mitre upon his head, and 
 clothed him with garments. 
 
 Q. How long did Christ stay 
 on earth after His resur- 
 rection ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 119, No. 2; p. 120, Nos. 
 3. 4; p. 121, No. 7; p. 122. Nos. 9, 10; p. 
 124, Nos. 14-16; p. 128, No. 28. 
 
 Q. After Christ had re- 
 mained forty days on earth 
 whither did He go ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 124, No. 18; p. 125, Nos. 
 19, 20. 
 
 (Gen. 47. A.M. 2300.) Then 
 Joseph went in and told Pharao, 
 saying : My father and breth- 
 ren, their sheep and their herds, 
 and all that they possess, are 
 come out of the land of Cha- 
 naan : and behold they stay in 
 the land of Gessen. Five men 
 also the last of his brethren, he 
 presented before the king : and 
 he asked them: What is your 
 occupation? They answered: 
 We thy servants are shepherds, 
 both we, and our fathers. We 
 are come to sojourn in th3Mand, 
 because there is no grass for 
 the flocks of thy servants, the 
 famine being very grievous in 
 
CATECHIS3I, 
 
 51 
 
 the land of Chanaan : and we 
 pray thee to give orders that 
 we thy servants may be in the- 
 land of Gessen. The king 
 therefore said to Joseph : Thy 
 father and thy brethren are 
 come to thee. The land of 
 Egypt is before thee : make 
 them dwell in the best place, 
 and give them the land of Ges- 
 sen. And if thou knowest that 
 there are industrious men 
 among them, make them rulers 
 over my cattle. 
 
 Q. "Where is Christ in heav- 
 en? 
 
 (Acts 7. A. D. 33.) Stephen, 
 full of grace and fortitude, did 
 great wonders and signs among 
 the people, saying : You stiff- 
 necked and uncircumcised in 
 heart and ears, ^'ou always re- 
 sist the Holy Ghost : as yonr 
 fathers did^ so do you also. 
 Which of the prophets have 
 not your fathers persecuted ? 
 And they have slain them who 
 foretold of the coming of the 
 Just One ; of whom you have 
 been now the betrayers and 
 murderers : who have received 
 the law by the disposition of 
 Angels, and have not kept it. 
 
 Now hearing these things, they 
 were cut to the heart, and they 
 gnashed with their teeth at 
 him. But he, being full of the 
 Holy Ghost, looking up stead- 
 fastly to heaven, saw the glory 
 of God, and Jesus standing on 
 the right hand of God. And 
 he said : Behold, I see the heav- 
 ens opened, and the Son of 
 man standing on the right 
 hand of God. And they cry- 
 ing out with a loud voice, 
 stopped their ears, and with one 
 accord ran violently upon him. 
 And casting him forth without 
 the city, they stoned him ; and 
 the witnesses laid dow^n their 
 garments at the feet of a young 
 man, whose name was Saul. 
 And they stoned Stephen, in- 
 voking and saying : Lord Jesus, 
 receive my spirit. And falling 
 on his knees, he cried with a 
 loud voice, saying : Lord, lay 
 not this sin to their charge. 
 And when he had said this, he 
 fell asleep in the Lord. And 
 Saul was consenting to his 
 death. 
 
 Q. "What do you mean by 
 saying that Christ sits at the 
 right hand of Grod? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. HI, No 7. 
 
 LESSO]!^ NINTH. 
 
 ON THE »OLY GHOST AND HIS DESCENT UPON THE APOSTLES. 
 
 Q. "Who is the Holy Ghost? 
 
 (Rom. 5.) Being justified 
 
 therefore by faith, let us have 
 
 peace with God, through our 
 
 Lord Jesus Christ : by whom 
 also we have access through 
 faith into this grace, w^ierein 
 w^e stand, and glory in the hope 
 
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 CATECHISM, 
 
 of the glor}^ of the sons of God. 
 And not onl}^ so ; but we glory 
 also in tribulations, knowing 
 that tribulation worketh pa- 
 tience ; and patience trial ; and 
 trial hope ; and hope confound- 
 eth not : because the charity of 
 God is poured forth in our 
 hearts, by the Holy Ghost, who 
 is given to us. 
 
 Q. Prom whom does the Holy- 
 Ghost proceed ? 
 
 See"L. of C.,"p. 105, No. 7. 
 
 Q. Is the Holy G-host equal 
 to the Father and the Son ? 
 
 (I. John 5.) It is the Spirit 
 which testifieth, that Christ is 
 the truth. And there are three 
 who give testimony in heaven, 
 the Father, the Word, and the 
 Holy Ghost. And these three 
 are one. 
 
 Q. On Tvhat day did the 
 Holy G-host come do'wn 
 upon the Apostles ? 
 
 See "L. of C.,"p. 125, No. 23. 
 
 Q. Ho'w did the Holy G-host 
 come do'wn upon the Apos- 
 tles ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 125, No. 23. 
 
 Q. "Who sent the Holy Ghost 
 upon the Apostles ? 
 
 (Gen. 50. A. M. 2369.) Jo- 
 seph returned into Egypt with 
 his brethren, and all that were 
 in his company, after he had 
 buried his father. After which 
 he told his brethren : God will 
 visit you after my death, and 
 will make you go up out of 
 this land, to the land which he 
 swore to Abraham, Isaac, and 
 Jacob. 
 
 Q. Why did Christ send the 
 Holy Ghost ? 
 
 (Isa. 60.) Arise, be enlight- 
 ened, Jerusalem : for thy 
 light is come, and the glory of 
 tlie Lord is risen upon thee. 
 For behold darkness shall cover 
 the earth, and a mist tlie peo- 
 ple : but the Lord shall arise 
 upon thee, and his glory shall 
 be seen upon thee. And the 
 Gentiles shall walk in thy 
 light, and kings in the bright- 
 ness of th}^ rising. Iniquity 
 shall no more be heard in thy 
 land, wasting nor destruction 
 in thy borders, and salvation 
 shall possess thy walls, and 
 praise thy gates. Thou shalt 
 no more have the sun for thy 
 light by day, neither shall the 
 brightness of the moon enlight- 
 en thee : but the Lord shall be 
 unto thee for an everlasting 
 light and thy God for thy 
 glory. Thy sun shall go down 
 no more, and thy moon shall 
 not decrease : for the Lord 
 shall be unto thee for an ever- 
 lasting light, and the da3^s of 
 thy mourning shall be ended. 
 And thy people shall he all 
 just, they shall inherit the land 
 for ever, the branch of my 
 planting, the work of my hand 
 to g\ov\fy me. The least shall 
 become a thousand, and a little 
 one a most strong nation : I 
 the Lord will suddenly do this 
 thing in its time. ^ 
 
 (Ezek. 34. A. M. 341Y.) The 
 word of the Lord came to me, 
 saying : Son of man, prophesy 
 concerning the shepherds of 
 Israel : prophesy, and say to 
 
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 53 
 
 the shepherds : Thus saith the 
 Lord God: Wo to the shepherds 
 of Israel, that fed themselves : 
 should not the flocks be fed by 
 the shepherds ? The weak you 
 have not strengthened, and that 
 which was sick you have not 
 healed, that which was broken 
 you have not bound up, and 
 that which was driven away 
 you have not brought again, 
 neither have you sought that 
 which was lost : but you ruled 
 over them with rigour, and with 
 a high hand. And my sheep 
 were scattered, because there 
 was no shepherd : and they be- 
 came the prey of all the beasts 
 of the field, and were scattered. 
 My sheep have wandered in 
 every mountain, and in every 
 high hill : and my flocks were 
 scattered upon the face of the 
 earth, and there was none that 
 sought them, there was none, I 
 say, that sought them. But 
 thus saith the Lord God : Be- 
 hold I myself will seek my 
 sheep, and will visit them. As 
 the shepherd visiteth his flock 
 in the day when he shall be in 
 the midst of his sheep that 
 were scattered, so will I visit 
 my sheep, and will deliver them 
 
 out of all the places where 
 they have been scattered in the 
 cloudy and dark day. And I 
 will bring them out from the 
 peoples, and will gather them 
 out of the countries, and will 
 bring them to their own land : 
 and I will feed them in the 
 mountains of Israel, by the 
 rivers, and in all the habita- 
 tions of the land. 1 will feed 
 them in the most fruitful pas- 
 tures, and their pastures shall 
 be in the high mountains of 
 Israel : there shall they rest on 
 the green grass, and be fed in 
 fat pastures upon the moun- 
 tains of Israel. I will feed my 
 sheep : and I will cause them 
 to lie down, saith the Lord 
 God. I will seek that which 
 was lost : and that which was 
 driven awa,y, I will bring 
 again : and I will bind up that 
 which was broken, and I will 
 strengthen that which was 
 weak, and that which was fat 
 and strong I will preserve : 
 and I will feed them in judg- 
 ment. 
 
 Q. "Will the Holy Ghost 
 abide -with the Church for 
 ever ? 
 
 See"L. ofC.,"p.l03, No.2. 
 
 LESSON TENTH. 
 
 ON THE EFFECTS OF THE REDEMPTION. 
 
 Q. Which are the chief ef- 
 fects of the Redemption ? 
 
 (Titus 2.) The grace of God 
 our Saviour hath appeared to 
 
 all men ; instructing us, that, 
 denying ungodliness and world- 
 ly desires, we should live sob- 
 erl}^, and justly, and godly in 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 this world, looking for the 
 blessed hope and coming of the 
 glory of the great God and 
 our Saviour Jesus Christ, who 
 gave himself for us, that he 
 might redeem us from all in- 
 iquit3% and might cleanse to 
 himself a people acceptable, a 
 pursuer of good works. 
 
 Q. What do you mean by- 
 grace ? 
 
 See ''L. of C," p. 21, No 6. 
 
 Q. How many kinds of grace 
 are there ? 
 
 (Ezek. 36.) I will give you 
 a new heart, and put a new^ 
 spirit w4thin you : and I will 
 take away the stony heart out 
 of your flesh, and will give you 
 a heart of flesh. And I will 
 put my spirit in the midst of 
 you : and I will cause you to 
 walk in my commandments, 
 and to keep my judgments, 
 and do them. 
 
 Q. What is sanctifying 
 grace ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 104, No. 4. 
 
 Q. "What do you call those 
 graces or gifts of G-od by 
 -which Tve believe in Him, 
 hope in Him, and love Him ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 45, No. 50. 
 (Rom. 5.) Being justified 
 by faith, let us have peace with 
 God, through our Lord Jesus 
 Christ: by whom also we have 
 access through faith into this 
 grace, wherein we stand, and 
 glory in the hope of the glory 
 of the sons of God. And not 
 only so ; but we glory also in 
 tribulations, knowing that 
 
 tribulation workelh patience ; 
 and patience trial ; and trial 
 hope ; and hope confoundeth 
 not : because the charity of God 
 is poured forth in our hearts, 
 by the Holy Ghost, who is 
 given to us. 
 
 Q. What is Faith ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 35, No. 23; p. 42, Nos. 
 42,45; p. 76, No. 17. 
 
 (Heb. 11.) Now faith is the 
 substance of things to be hoped 
 for, the evidence of things that 
 appear not. 
 
 (James 2.) What shall it 
 profit, my brethren, if a man 
 say he hath faith, but hath not 
 works? Shall faith be able to 
 save him? And if a brother 
 or sister be naked, and want 
 daily food : and one of you 
 say to them : Go in peace, be 
 ye warmed and filled ; yet give 
 them not those things that are 
 necessary for the body, what 
 shall it profit ? So faith also, 
 if it have not works, is dead in 
 itself. But some man will say : 
 Thou hast faith, and I have 
 works : shew me thy faith with- 
 out works ; and I will shew 
 thee, by works, my faith. Thou 
 believest that there is one God. 
 Thou dost well : the devils also 
 believe and tremble. 
 
 (Josh. 2. A. M. 2553.) Josue 
 the son of Nun sent from 
 Setim two men, to spy secret- 
 ly : and said to them : Go, and 
 view the land and the city of 
 Jericho. They went and en- 
 tered into the house of a woman 
 named Eahab, and lodged with 
 her. And the king of Jericho 
 
CATECHISM, 
 
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 sent to Rahab, saying : Bring 
 fortli the men tliat came to 
 thee, and are entered into thy 
 honse : for they are spies, and 
 are come to view all the land. 
 And the woman taking the men, 
 hid them, and said : I confess 
 they came to me, but I 
 knew not whence they were : 
 And at the time of shutting 
 the gate in \\i% dark, they also 
 went out together. I know not 
 whither they are gone : pursue 
 after them quickly, and you 
 will overtake them. Now the 
 men that were hidden were not 
 yet asleep, when behold the 
 woman went up to them, and 
 said : 1 know that the Lord 
 hath given this land to you : 
 for the dread of you is fallen 
 upon us, and all the inhabitants 
 of the land have lost all 
 strength. Now therefore swear 
 ye to me by the Lord, that as I 
 have shewn mercy to you, so 
 you also will shew mercy to my 
 father's house : and give me a 
 true token, that you will save 
 my father and mother, my 
 brethren and sisters, and all 
 things that are theirs, and de- 
 liver our souls from death. 
 And they said to her : We 
 shall be blameless of this oath, 
 which thou hast made us swear : 
 if when we come into the land, 
 this scarlet cord be a sign, and 
 thou tie it in the window, b}^ 
 which thou hast let us down : 
 and gather together thy father 
 and mother, and brethren and 
 all thy kindred into thy house. 
 Whosoever shall go out of the 
 door of thy house, his blood 
 
 shall be upon his own head, and 
 we shall be quit. But the blood 
 of all that shall be with thee in 
 the house, shall light upon our 
 head, if any man touch them. 
 But if thou wilt betray us, and 
 utter this word abroad, we shall 
 be quit of this oath which thou 
 hast made us swear. And she 
 answered : As you have spoken, 
 so be it done. And sending 
 them on their way, she hung 
 the scarlet cord in the window. 
 
 Q. What is Hope ? 
 
 (Kom. 8.) We are saved by 
 hope. But hoj^e that is seen, 
 is not hope. For what a man 
 seeth, why doth he hope for? 
 But if we hope for that which 
 we see not, we wait for it with 
 patience. What shall we then 
 say to these things ? If God 
 be for us, who is against us ? 
 He that spared not even his 
 own Son, but delivered him up 
 for us all, how hath he not also, 
 with him, given us all things? 
 
 Q. \\niat is Charity ? 
 
 (I. Cor. 13.) If I speak with 
 the tongues of men, and of 
 angels, and have not charity, I 
 am become as sounding brass, 
 or a tinkling cymbal. And if 
 I should have prophecy and 
 should know all mysteries, and 
 nil knowledge, and if I should 
 have all faith, so that I could 
 remove mountains, and have 
 not charity, I am nothing. And 
 if I should distribute all my 
 goods to feed the poor, and if I 
 should deliver my body to be 
 burned, and have not charity^ 
 
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 CATECmS3I. 
 
 it profiteth me nothing. Cliar- 
 ity is patient, is kind : charity 
 envieth not, dealeth not per- 
 versely ; is not puffed up ; is 
 not ambitious, seeketh not her 
 own, is not provoked to anger, 
 thinketh no evil ; rejoiceth 
 not in iniquity, but rejoiceth 
 with the truth ; beareth all 
 things, believeth all things, 
 hopeth all things, endureth all 
 things. Charit}'^ never falleth 
 awa}' : whether prophecies shall 
 be made void, or tongues shall 
 cease, or knowledge shall be 
 destroyed. For we know in 
 part, and we prophesy in part. 
 But when that which is perfect 
 is come, that which is in part 
 shall be done away. When I 
 was a child, I spoke as a child, 
 I understood as a child, I 
 thought as a child. But, when 
 I became a man, I put away the 
 things of a child. We see now 
 through a glass in a dark man- 
 ner ; but then face to face. 
 Now I know in part ; but then 
 I shall know even as I am 
 known. And now there remain 
 faith, hope, charity, these three ; 
 but the greater - of these is 
 charity. 
 
 (lY. Kings 2. A. M. 3108.) 
 It came to pass, when the Lord 
 would take up Elias into 
 heaven by a whirlwind, that 
 Elias and Eliseus were going 
 from Galgal. And Elias said 
 to him : 8tay here, because the 
 Lord hath sent me as far as the 
 Jordan. And he said : As the 
 Lord liveth, and as thy soul 
 liveth, I will not leave thee ; 
 and they two went on together. 
 
 Soon they two stood by the 
 Jordan. And Elias took his 
 mantle and folded it together, 
 and struck the waters, and they 
 were divided hither and thith- 
 er, and they both passed over 
 on dry ground. And when 
 they were gone over, Elias said 
 to Eliseus : Ask what thou wilt 
 have me to do for thee, before I 
 be taken away from thee. And 
 Eliseus said : I beseech thee 
 that in me may be thy double 
 spirit. And as they went on, 
 walking and talking together, 
 behold a llery chariot, and fiery 
 horses parted them both asun- 
 der : and Elias went up by a 
 whirlwind into heaven. And 
 Eliseus took up the mantle of 
 Elias, that fell from him : and 
 going back, he stood upon the 
 bank of the Jordan, and he 
 struck the waters with the 
 mantle of Elias, that had fallen 
 from him, and they were not 
 divided. And he said : Where 
 is now the God of Elias ? And 
 he struck the waters, and they 
 were divided, hither and thith- 
 er, and Eliseus passed over. 
 
 Q. "What is actual grace ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 50, No. 9. 
 
 Q. Is grace necessary to sal- 
 vation ? 
 
 (Ex. 5. A.M. 2513.) Pharao 
 commanded the same day the 
 overseers of the works, and the 
 task-masters of the people, say- 
 ing : You shall give straw no 
 more to the people to make 
 brick, as before : but let them 
 go and gather straw. And you 
 shall lay upon them the task of 
 
CATECHISM, 
 
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 bricks, which they did before, 
 neither shall you diminish any 
 thing thereof: for they are 
 idle, and therefore they cry, 
 sa3^ing : Let us go and sacrifice 
 to our God. Let them be op- 
 pressed, with works, and let 
 them fulfil them : that they 
 ma}" not regard lying words. 
 
 Q. Can 'we resist the grace 
 of Qod? 
 
 (L Kings 5. A.M. 2888.) The 
 Philistines took the ark of God 
 and brought it mto the temple 
 of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. 
 And when the Azotians arose 
 early the next day, behold Da- 
 gon lay upon his face on the 
 ground before the ark of the 
 Lord : and they took Dagon, 
 and set him again in his place. 
 And the next day again, when 
 they arose in the morning, they 
 found Dagon lying upon his 
 face on the earth before the ark 
 of the Lord : and the head of 
 Dagon, and both the palms of 
 his hands were cut off upon the 
 threshold : and only the stump 
 of Dagon remained in its place. 
 For this cause neither the 
 priests of Dagon, nor any that 
 go into the temple tread on the 
 threshold of Dagon in Azotus 
 unto this day. And the hand 
 of the Lord was heavy upon 
 the Azotians, and he destroyed 
 them. And while they were 
 carrying it about, the hand of 
 the Lord came upon ever}^ city 
 with an exceeding great slaugh- 
 ter: and he smote the men of 
 every city, both small and 
 great, and they had emerods. 
 
 And the Gethrites consulted to- 
 gether. Therefore they sent 
 the ark of God into Accaron. 
 And when the ark of God was 
 come into Accaron, the Acca- 
 ronites cried out, saying : They 
 have brought the ark of the 
 God of Israel to us, to kill us 
 and our people. They sent 
 therefore and gathered together 
 all the lords of the Philistines : 
 and they said : Send away the 
 ark of the God of Israel, and 
 let it return into its own place, 
 and not kill us and our people. 
 For there was the fear of death 
 in every city, and the hand of 
 God was exceeding heavy. 
 
 (I. Kings 19. A. M. ^2944.) 
 David fled and escaped, and came 
 to Samuel in Ramatha, and 
 told him all that Saul had done 
 to him : and he and Samuel 
 went and dwelt in Najoth. And 
 it was told Saul by some, sa}^- 
 ing : Behold David is in Najoth 
 in Ramatha. So Saul sent offi- 
 cers to take David : and when 
 they saw a company of proph- 
 ets prophesying, and Samuel 
 presiding over them, the Spirit 
 of the Lord came also upon 
 them, and they likewise began 
 to prophesy. And when this 
 was told Saul, he sent other 
 messengers : but thoy also 
 prophesied. And again Saul 
 sent messengers the third time: 
 and they prophesied also. And 
 Saul being exceedingly angry, 
 went also himself to Ramatha, 
 and came as far as the great 
 cistern, which is in Socho, and 
 he asked, and said : In what 
 place are Samuel and David ? 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 And it was told him : Behold 
 they are in Najoth in Rainatha. 
 And he went to Najoth, in 
 Ramatha, and the Spirit of the 
 Lord came upon him also, and 
 he went on, and prophesied till 
 he came to Najoth in Ramatha. 
 
 (Isa. 6. A. M. 3246.) One of 
 the Seraphims flew to me, and 
 in his hand was a live coal, 
 which he had taken with the 
 tongs off the altar. And he 
 touched my mouth, and said : 
 Behold this hath touched thy 
 lips, and th}^ iniquities shall be 
 taken away, and thy sin shall 
 be cleansed. And I heard the 
 voice of the Lord, saying : 
 Whom shall I send ? and who 
 shall go for us? And I said: 
 Lo, here am I, send me. And 
 he said : Go, and thou shalt say 
 to this people : Hearing hear, 
 and understand not : and see 
 the vision, and know it not. 
 Blind the heart of this people, 
 and make their ears heavy, and 
 shut their e3^es : lest they see 
 with their eyes, and hear with 
 their ears, and understand with 
 their heart, and be converted 
 and I heal them. 
 
 (Jonas A. M. 3119.) Now 
 the word of the Lord came to 
 Jonas the son of Amathi, say- 
 ing: Arise, and go to Ninive 
 the great city, and preach in 
 it : for the wickedness thereof 
 is come up before me. And 
 Jonas rose up to flee into 
 Tharsis from the face of the 
 Lord, and he went down to 
 Joppe, and found a ship going 
 to Tharsis : and he paid the 
 fare thereof, and went down 
 
 into it, to go with them to 
 Tharsis from the face of the 
 Lord. But the Lord sent a 
 great wind into the sea : and a 
 great tempest was raised in the 
 sea, and the ship was in danger 
 to be broken. And the mariners 
 were afraid, and the men cried 
 to their god : and they cast 
 forth the wares that were in 
 the ship, iuto the sea, to light- 
 en it of them : and Jonas went 
 down into the inner part of the 
 ship, and fell into a deep sleep. 
 And the ship-master came to 
 him, and said to him : Why art 
 thou fast asleep ? rise up, call 
 upon thy God, if so be that 
 God will think of us, that we 
 may not perish. And they said 
 every one to his fellow: Come, 
 and let us cast lots, that we 
 may know why this evil is 
 upon us. And they cast lots, 
 and the lot fell upon Jonas. 
 And he said to them : Take me 
 up, and cast me into the sea, 
 and the sea shall be calm to 
 you : for I know that for my 
 sake this great tempest is upon 
 you. And they took Jonas, 
 and cast him into the sea, and 
 the sea ceased from raging. 
 Now the Lord prepared a great 
 fish to swallow up Jonas : and 
 Jonas was in the belly of the 
 fish three days and three nights. 
 And Jonas prayed to the Lord 
 his God out of the belly of the 
 fish. And the Lord spoke to 
 the fish : and it vomited out 
 Jonas upon the dry land. And 
 Jonas arose, and went to Nin- 
 ive, according to the word of 
 the Lord : now Ninive was a 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 59 
 
 great cit}^ of three days' jour- 
 ney. And Jonas began to en- 
 ter into the city one day's 
 journey: and he cried, and 
 said : Yet forty days, and Nin- 
 ive shall be destroyed. And 
 the men of Ninive believed in 
 God : and they proclaimed a 
 fast, and put on sackcloth from 
 the greatest to the least. And 
 the word came to the king of 
 Ninive ; and he rose up out of 
 his throne, and cast away his 
 robe from him, and was clothed 
 with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 
 And God saw their works, 
 that they were turned from 
 their evil way : and God had 
 mercy with regard to the evil 
 which he had said that he would 
 do to them, and he did it not. 
 And Jonas was exceedingly 
 troubled, and was angry : and 
 the Lord said : Dost thou think 
 thou hast reason to be angry ? 
 Then Jonas went out of the 
 city, and sat toward the east 
 side of the city : and he made 
 himself a booth there, and he 
 sat under it in the shadow, till 
 he might see w^hat would befall 
 the city. And the Lord God 
 prepared an ivy, and it came 
 up over the head of Jonas, to 
 be a shadow over his head, and 
 to cover him (for he was fa- 
 tigued) : and Jonas was exceed- 
 ing glad of the ivy. But God 
 prepared a worm, when the 
 mornino^ arose on the foUowinor 
 day : and it struck the ivy and 
 it withered. And when the sun 
 was risen, the Lord commanded 
 a hot and burning wind : and 
 the sun beat upon the head of 
 
 Jonas, and he broiled with the 
 heat: and he desired for his 
 soul that he might die, and 
 said : It is better for me to die 
 than to live. And the Lord 
 said to Jonas : Dost thou think 
 thou hast reason to be angry, 
 for the ivy ? And he said : I 
 am angiy with reason even 
 unto death. And the Lord said : 
 Thou art grieved for the ivy, 
 for which thou hast not la- 
 boured, nor made it to grow, 
 which in one night came up, and 
 in one night perished. And 
 shall not I spare Ninive, that 
 great city, in which there are 
 more than a hundred and twenty 
 thousand persons that know not 
 how to distinguish between their 
 right hand and their left. 
 
 Q. What Is the grace of per- 
 severance ? 
 
 See "L. ofC.,"p. 64, No. 24. 
 
 (Gen. 48. A. M. 23L5.) Jo- 
 seph set Ephraim on his right 
 hand, that is, towards the left 
 hand of Israel ; but Manasses 
 on his left hand, to wit, towards 
 his father's right hand, and 
 brought them near to him. But 
 he stretching forth his right 
 hand, put it upon the head of 
 Ephraim the younger brother ; 
 and the left upon the head of 
 Manasses who was the elder, 
 changing his hands. And Jacob 
 blessed the sons of Joseph, and 
 said: God, in whose sight my 
 fathers Abraham and Isaac 
 walked, God that feedeth me 
 from m}^ youth until this day ; 
 the angel that delivereth me 
 from all evils, bless these boys : 
 and let m}^ name be called upon 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 them, and the names of m}^ 
 fathers Abraham, and Isaac, 
 and may they grow into a mul- 
 titude upon the earth. And 
 Joseph seeing that his father 
 had put his right hand upon 
 the head of Ephraim, was much 
 displeased : and taking his fa- 
 ther's hand he tried to lift it 
 from Ephraim's head, and to 
 remove it to the head of Manas- 
 
 ses. And he said to his father : 
 It should not be so, my father : 
 for this is the tirst-born, put thy 
 right hand upon his head. But 
 he refusing, said : I know, my 
 son, I know : and this also shall 
 become peoples, and shall be 
 multiplied : but this younger 
 brother shall be greater than 
 he : and his seed shall grow into 
 nations. 
 
 LESSON ELEVENTH. 
 
 ON THE CHURCH. 
 
 Q. Wliioh are the means in- 
 stituted by our Lord to en- 
 able men at all times to 
 share in the fruits of the Re- 
 demption ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 127, Nos. 26, 27. 
 
 (James 2.) My brethren, have 
 not the faith of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ of glory with respect of 
 persons. For if there shall 
 come into your assembly a man 
 having a golden ring, in fine 
 apparel, and there shall come 
 in also a poor man in mean at- 
 tire, and you have respect to 
 him that is clothed with the fine 
 apparel, and shall say to him : 
 Sit til on here w^ell ; but say to 
 the poor man : Stand thou 
 there, or sit under my footstool : 
 do you not judge within your- 
 selves, and are become judges 
 of unjust thoughts? Hearken, 
 m}'- dearest brethren : hath not 
 God chosen the poor in this 
 world, rich in faith, and heirs 
 of the kingdom which God hath 
 
 promised to them that love 
 him? But you have dishon- 
 oured the poor man. Do not 
 the rich oppress 3'ou by might? 
 and do not they draw you be- 
 fore the judgment-seats? Do 
 not they blaspheme the good 
 name that is invoked upon you? 
 If then 3^ou fulfil the royal law, 
 according to the scriptures, 
 Thou shall love thy neighbour 
 as thyself; you do well. But 
 if you have respect to persons, 
 you commit sin, being reproved 
 by the law as transgressors. 
 
 (Gen. 25. A. M. 2148.) Isaac 
 besought the Lord for his wife, 
 because she was barren ; and he 
 heard him, and made Rebecca 
 to conceive. But the children 
 struggled in her w^omb : and she 
 said: If it were to be so with 
 me, w^hat need was there to 
 conceive? And she went to 
 consult the Lord. And he an- 
 swering said : Two nations are 
 in thy womb, and two peoples 
 
CATECHISM, 
 
 61 
 
 shall be divided out of thy 
 womb, and one people shall 
 overcome the other, and the 
 elder shall serve the younger. 
 And when her time was come 
 to be delivered, behold twins 
 were found in her womb. And 
 when they were grown up, 
 Esau became a skilful hunter, 
 and a husbandnaan : but Jacob 
 a plain man dwelt in tents. 
 Isaac loved Esau, because he 
 eat of his hunting : and Rebecca 
 loved Jacob. And Jacob boiled 
 pottage : to whom Esau, coming 
 faint out of the field, said : Give 
 me of this red pottage, for I am 
 exceeding faint. For which 
 reason his name was called 
 Edom. And Jacob said to him : 
 Sell me thy first birth-right. 
 He answered : Lo I die, what 
 will the first birth-right avail 
 me. Jacob said : Swear there- 
 fore to me. Esau swore to 
 him, and sold his first birth- 
 right. And so taking bread 
 and the pottage of lentils, he ate, 
 and drank, and went his way ; 
 making little account of having 
 sold his first birth-right. 
 
 Q. WTiat is the Church ? 
 
 See '' L. of C," p. 18, No. 2; p. 40, No. 36. 
 
 (Ezek. 47. A. M. 3430.) An 
 angel brought me again to 
 the gate of the house, and be- 
 hold waters issued out from un- 
 der the threshold of the house, 
 towards the east : and when the 
 man that had the line in his 
 hand went out towards the east, 
 he measured a thousand cubits : 
 and he brought me through the 
 water up to the ankles. And 
 
 again he measured a thousand, 
 and he brought me through the 
 water up to the knees. And he 
 measured a thousand, and he 
 brought me through the water 
 up to the loins. And he meas- 
 ured a thousand, and it was a 
 torrent, which I could not pass 
 over : for the waters were risen 
 so as to make a deep torrent, 
 which could not be passed over. 
 And he said to me : These wa- 
 ters that issue forth toward the 
 hillocks of sand to the east, and 
 go down to the plains of the 
 desert, shall go into the sea, and 
 shall go out, and the water 
 shall be healed. And every 
 living creature that creepeth 
 whithersoever the torrent shall 
 come, shall live : and there shall 
 be fishes in abundance after 
 these waters shall come thither, 
 and they shall be healed, and 
 all things shall live to which 
 the torrent shall come. And 
 the fishers shall stand over 
 these waters^ from Engaddi 
 even to Engallim there shall be 
 drj'ing of nets : there shall be 
 man}^ sorts of the fishes thereof, 
 as the fishes of the great sea, a 
 very great multitude: but on 
 the shore thereof, and in the 
 fennj'^ places they shall not be 
 healed, because the}' shall be 
 turned into salt-[)its. And by 
 the torrent on the banks thereof 
 on both sides shall grow all 
 trees that bear fruit : their leaf 
 shall not fall oflT, and their fruit 
 shall not fail : every month 
 shall they bring forth first- 
 fruits, because the waters 
 thereof shall issue out of the 
 
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 sanctuary : and the fruits 
 thereof shall be for food, and the 
 leaves thereof for medicine. 
 
 Q. Who is the invisible Head 
 of the Church? 
 
 See "L. of (J.,"p. 62, No. 21. 
 
 (Eph. 1.) Now therefore 
 you are no more strangers and 
 foreigners : but you are fellow- 
 citizens w4th the saints, and the 
 domestics of God, built upon 
 the foundation of the apostles 
 and prophets, Jesus Christ him- 
 self being tiie chief corner-stone : 
 in whom all the building, being 
 framed together, groweth up 
 into an holy temple in the Lord. 
 In whom you also are built to- 
 gether, into an habitation of 
 God in the Spirit. 
 
 Q. "Who is the visible Head 
 
 of the Church ? 
 See "L. of C," p. 24, No. 9; p. 50, No. 10. 
 
 (lY. Kings 25. A. M. 3414.) 
 It came to pass in the ninth year 
 of his reign, in the tenth month, 
 the tentli day of the month, 
 that Nabuchodonosor king of 
 Babylon came, he and all his 
 army against Jerusalem : and 
 the^^ surrounded it : and raised 
 works round about it. And the 
 city was shut up and besieged 
 till the eleventh year of king 
 Sedecias. The ninth day of 
 the month : and a famine pre- 
 vailed in the city, and there was 
 no bread for the people of the 
 land. And a breach was made 
 into tlie city : and all the men 
 of war fled in the niglit between 
 the two walls by tlie king's 
 garden (now the Chaldees be- 
 sieged tlie city round about,) 
 
 and Sedecias fled b^^ the way 
 that leadeth to the plains of 
 the wilderness. And the army 
 of the Chaldees pursued after 
 the king, and overtook him in 
 tiie plains of Jericho: and all 
 the warriors that were with 
 him were scattered, and left him : 
 so they took the king, and 
 brought him to the king of 
 Babylon to Reblatha, and he 
 gavejudgment upon him. And 
 he slew the sons of Sedecias be- 
 fore his face, and he put out his 
 e^'es, and bound him with 
 chains, and brought him to 
 Babylon. 
 
 Q. Why is the Pope, the 
 
 Bishop of Rome, the visible 
 
 Head of the Church ? 
 
 See ''L. of C," p. 102. No. 8; p. 123, Nos. 
 11, 12. 
 
 (Apoc. 4.) In the sight of 
 the throne was, as it were, a sea 
 of glass like to cr^^stal ; and in 
 the midst of the throne, and 
 round about the throne, were 
 four living creatures, full of 
 eyes before and behind. And 
 the first living creature was like 
 a lion ; and the second living 
 creature like a calf: and the 
 third living creature, having 
 the face, as it were, of a man ; 
 and the fourth living creature 
 was like an eagle flying. 
 
 Q. "Who are the successors 
 of the other Apostles ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 30. No. 5; p. 54, No. 5; p. 
 94, No. 39. 
 
 (Acts 19. A. D. 56.) Now 
 some also of the Jewish exor- 
 cists who went about, attempted 
 to invoke over them that had 
 evil spirits, the name of the Lord 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 63 
 
 Jesns, saying: I conjure you 
 by Jesus, whom Paul preach- 
 etli. And there were certain 
 men, seven sons of Sceva, a 
 Jew, a chief priest, that did 
 this. But the wicked spirit, 
 answering, said to them : Jesus 
 1 know, and Paul I know ; but 
 who are you ? And the man in 
 who.n the wicked spirit was, 
 leaping upon them, and master- 
 ing them both, prevailed against 
 them, so that they fled out of 
 that house naked and wounded. 
 And this became known to all 
 the Jews and the gentiles that 
 dwelt at Ephesus ; and fear fell 
 on them all, and the name of 
 the Lord Jesus was magnified. 
 And many of them that be- 
 lieved, came confessing and de- 
 claring their deeds. 
 
 (I. Cor. 1.) See your voca- 
 tion, brethren, that there are 
 not many wise according to 
 the flesh, not many mighty, 
 not many noble; but the fool- 
 ish things of the world bath 
 God chosen, that he may con- 
 found the wise ; and the weak 
 things of the world hath God 
 chosen, that he may confound 
 the strong. And the base things 
 of the world, and the things 
 that are contemptible hath God 
 chosen, and things that are not, 
 that he might bring to nought 
 things that are : that no flesh 
 should glory in his sight. 
 
 (Ezek. 1. A. M. 8400.) I 
 saw, and behold a whirlwind 
 came out of the north : and a 
 great cloud, and a fire infolding 
 z7, and brightness was about. 
 (And in the midst thereof the 
 
 likeness of four living crea- 
 tures : and this was their ap- 
 pearance : there was the like- 
 ness of a man in them. Every 
 one had four faces, and ever}'' 
 one four wings. And the wings 
 of one were joined to the winirs 
 of another. They turned not 
 when the}^ went : but every one 
 went straight forward. And as 
 for the likeness of their faces : 
 there was the face of a man, 
 and the face of a lion on the 
 right side of all the four: and 
 the face of an ox, on the left 
 side of all the four : and the 
 face of an eagle over all the 
 four. And their faces, and their 
 wings were stretched upward : 
 two wings of every one were 
 joined, and two covered their 
 bodies : and every one of them 
 went straight forward : whither 
 the impulse of the spirit was to 
 go, thither they went : and they 
 turned not when they went.) 
 
 Q. "Wh-Y did Christ found 
 the Church ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 25, No. 12. 
 
 (Gen. 27. A. M. 2245.) Now 
 Isaac was old, and his eyes 
 were dim, and he could not see : 
 and he called Esau his elder 
 son, and said to him : Take thy 
 arms, thy quiver, and bow, and 
 go abroad : and when thou hast 
 taken some thing by hunting, 
 make me savouiy meat thereof, 
 as thou knowest I like, and 
 bring it, that I may eat : and 
 ray soul may bless thee before 
 I die. And when Rebecca had 
 heard this, and he was gone 
 into the field to fulfil his father's 
 
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 commandment, she said to her 
 son Jacob : now, therefore, my 
 son, follow my counsel : and go 
 thy way to the flock, bring me 
 two kids of the best, that I may 
 make of them meat for thy 
 father, such as he gladly eat- 
 eth : which when thou hast 
 brought in, and he hath eaten, 
 he may bless thee before he die. 
 And she put on him very good 
 garments of Esau, which she 
 had at home with her : and the 
 little skins of the kids she put 
 about his hands, and covered 
 the bare of his neck. And she 
 gave him the savoury meat, 
 and delivered him bread that 
 she had baked. Which when he 
 had carried in, he said: my 
 father? But he answered: I 
 hear. Who art thou, my son? 
 And Jacob said : I am Esau 
 tliy first-born : I have done as 
 thou didst command me : arise, 
 sit, and eat of my vension, that 
 thy soul may bless me. He 
 came near, and kissed him. 
 And immediately as he smelled 
 the fragrant smell of his gar- 
 ments, blessing him, he said : 
 }3ehold the smell of my son is 
 as the smell of a plentiful field, 
 which the Lord hath blessed. 
 God give thee the dew of heav- 
 en, and of the fatness of the 
 earth, abundance of corn and 
 wine. And let peoples serve 
 thee, and tribes worship thee : 
 be thou lord of thy brethren, 
 and let thy mother's children 
 bow down before thee. Cursed 
 be he that curseth thee : and 
 let him that blesseth tbee be 
 filled with blessings. Isaac had 
 
 scarce ended his words, when 
 Jacob being now gone out 
 abroad, Esau came, and he 
 said : Thy brother came de- 
 ceitfully and got thy blessing. 
 And Esau said to him : Hast 
 thou only one blessing, father ? 
 I beseech thee bless me also. 
 And when he wept with a loud 
 cry, Isaac being moved, said to 
 him: In the fat of the earth, 
 and in the dew of heaven from 
 above, shall thy blessing be. 
 Thou shalt live by the sword 
 and shalt serve thy brother : 
 and the time shall come, w^hen 
 thou shalt shake off and loose 
 his yoke from thy neck. 
 
 (Josh. 6. A. M. 2553.) Now 
 Jericho was close shut up and 
 fenced, for fear of the children 
 of Israel, and no man durst go 
 out or come in. And the Lord 
 said to Josue : Behold I have 
 given into thy hands Jericho, 
 and the king thereof, and all the 
 valiant men. Go round about 
 the city all ye fighting men 
 once a day : so shall ye do for 
 six days. And on the seventh 
 day the priests shall take the 
 seven trumpets, which are used 
 in the jubilee, and shall go be- 
 fore the ark of the covenant : 
 and you shall go about the oity 
 seven times, and the priests 
 shall sound the trumpets. And 
 when the voice of the trumpet 
 shall give a longer and broken 
 tune, and shall sound in your 
 ears, all the people shall shout 
 together with a very great 
 shout, and the walls of the city 
 shall fall to the ground, and 
 they shall enter in every one at 
 
CATECHISM, 
 
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 the place against which they 
 shall stand. So they did six 
 days. And when in the seventh 
 going about the priests sounded 
 with the trumpets, Josue said 
 to all Israel : Shout : for' the 
 Lord hath delivered the city to 
 you : so all the people making 
 a shout, and the trumpets 
 sounding, when the voice and 
 the sound thundered in the ears 
 of the multitude, the w^alls 
 forthwith fell down : and every 
 man went up by the place that 
 was over-against him : and they 
 took the city. At that time, 
 Josue made an imprecation, 
 saying : Cursed be tlie man be- 
 fore the Lord, that shall raise 
 up and build the city of Jericho. 
 
 Q. Are all bound to belong 
 to the Church ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 34, No. 21; p. 39, No. 34; 
 p. 40, No. 35. 
 
 (Num. 16. A.M. 2535.) Core 
 the son of Isaar, the son of 
 Caath, the son of Levi, and Da- 
 than and Abiron the sons of 
 Eliab, and Hon the son of Phel- 
 eth of the children of Ruben, 
 rose up against Moses, and 
 with them two hundred and 
 fifty others of the children of 
 Israel, leading men of the syna- 
 gogue, and who in the time of 
 assembly were called by name. 
 And when they had stood up 
 against Moses and Aaron, they 
 said : Let it be enough for you, 
 that all the multitude consist- 
 eth of holy ones, and the Lord 
 is among them : Why lift 3^ou 
 up yourselves above tiie people 
 of the Lord ? Then Moses sent 
 to call Dathan and Abiron the 
 
 sons of Eliab. But they an- 
 swered : We will not come. Is 
 it a small matter to thee, that 
 thou hast brought us out of a 
 land that flowed with milk and 
 honey, to kill us in the desert, 
 except thou rule also like a 
 lord over us? And the Lord 
 said to Moses : Command the 
 whole people to separate them- 
 selves from the tents of Core 
 and Dathan and Abiron. And 
 Moses arose, and went to Da- 
 than and Abiron : and the an- 
 cients of Israel following him, 
 he said to the multitude : De- 
 part from the tents of these 
 wicked men, and touch nothing 
 of theirs, lest you be involved 
 in their sins. And when they 
 were departed from their tents 
 round about, Dathan and Abi- 
 ron coming out stood in the en- 
 try of their pavilions with their 
 wives and children, and all the 
 people. And immediately the 
 earth broke asunder under their 
 feet: and opening her mouth, 
 devoured them with their tents 
 and all their substance. And 
 they went down alive into hell, 
 the ground closing upon them, 
 and the}^ perished from among 
 the people. The following day 
 all the multitude of the chil- 
 dren of Israel murmured against 
 Moses and Aaron, saying : 
 You have killed the people of 
 the Lord. And when there 
 arose a sedition, and the tumult 
 increased, Moses and Aaron 
 fled to the tabernacle of the 
 covenant. And the Lord said 
 to Moses : Get you out from 
 the midst of this multitude, this 
 
66 
 
 CATECHISM. 
 
 moment will I destroy them. 
 And as they were lying on the 
 ground, Moses said to Aaron : 
 Take the censer, and putting 
 fire in it from the altar, put in- 
 cense upon it, and go quicl^ly 
 to the people to pray for them : 
 for already wrath is gone out 
 from the Lord, and the plague 
 rageth. When Aaron had done 
 this, and had run to the midst 
 of the multitude which the 
 burning fire was now destroy- 
 
 ing, 
 
 he offered the incense 
 
 and standing between the dead 
 and the living, he prayed for the 
 people, and the plague ceased. 
 
 (Deut. 12.) Beware lest thou 
 offer thy holocausts in every 
 place that thou shalt see : but 
 in the place which the Lord 
 shall choose in one of thy tribes 
 shalt thou offer sacrifices, and 
 shalt do all that I command 
 thee. Thou mayst not eat in 
 thy towns the tithes of thy 
 corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, 
 the first-born of thy herds and 
 thy cattle, nor any thing that 
 thou vowest, and that thou wilt 
 offer voluntarily, and the first 
 fruits of thy hands : but thou 
 shalt eat them before the Lord 
 thy God in the place which the 
 Lord thy God shall choose, 
 thou and th}^ son and thy 
 daughter, and thy man-servant, 
 and maid-servant, and the 
 Levite that dwelleth in thy 
 cities : and thou shalt rejoice 
 and be refreshed before the 
 Lord thy God in all things, 
 whereunto thou shalt put thy 
 hand. 
 
 (IL Pari. 26. A. M. 3194.) 
 
 Ozias was sixteen years old 
 when he began to reign. And 
 he sought the Lord in the days 
 of Zacharias that understood 
 and saw God : and as long as 
 he sought the Lord, he directed 
 him in all thinsfs. But when he 
 was made strong, his heart was 
 lifted up to his destruction, and 
 he neglected the Lord his God : 
 and going into the temple of 
 the Lord, he had a mind to 
 burn incense upon the altar of 
 incense. And immediately Aza- 
 rias the priest going in after 
 him, and with him fourscore 
 priests of the Lord, most val- 
 iant men, withstood the king 
 and said : It doth not belong to 
 thee, Ozias, to burn incense to 
 the Lord, but to the priests, 
 that is, to the sons of Aaron, 
 who are consecrated for this 
 ministry : go out of the sanc- 
 tuary^, do not despise: for this 
 thing shall not be accounted to 
 thy glory by the Lord God. 
 And Ozias was angry, and 
 holding in his hand the censer 
 to burn incense, threatened the 
 priests. And presently there 
 rose a leprosy in his forehead 
 before the priests, in the house 
 of the Lord at the altar of in- 
 cense. And Ozias the king was 
 a leper unto the day of his 
 death, and he dwelt in a house 
 apart being full of the leprosy, 
 for which he had been cast out 
 of the house of the Lord. 
 
 (Isa. 2. A. M. 3219.) The 
 word that Isaias the son of 
 Amos saw, concerning Juda 
 and Jerusalem. And in the 
 last days the mountain of the 
 
CATECHISM, 
 
 67 
 
 house of the Lord shall be pre- 
 pared on the top of mountains, 
 and it shall be exalted above 
 the hills, and all nations shall 
 flow unto it. And many people 
 shall go, and say: Come and 
 let us go up to the mountain of 
 the Lord, and to the house of 
 the God of Jacob, and he will 
 teach us his waj^s, and we will 
 walk in his paths : for the law 
 
 shall come forth from Sion,and 
 the word of the Lord from 
 Jerusalem. And he shall judge 
 the Gentiles, and rebuke many 
 people : and they sball turn 
 their swords into plough-shares, 
 and their spears into sickles: 
 nation shall not lift up sword 
 against nation, neither shall 
 they be exercised any more to 
 war. 
 
 LESSO]^ TWELFTH. 
 
 ON THE ATTRIBUTES AND MARKS OF THE CHURCH. 
 
 Q. Which are the attributes 
 of the Church ? 
 
 (Matt. 28.) Jesus coming, 
 spoke to them, saying : All 
 power is given to me in heaven 
 and in earth. Going therefore, 
 teach ye all nations ; baptizing 
 them in the name of the Fa- 
 ther, and of the Son, and of the 
 Holy Ghost. Teaching them 
 to observe all things whatso- 
 ever I have commanded you : 
 and behold I am with you all 
 days, even to the consumma- 
 tion of the world. 
 
 Q. 'What do you mean by the 
 authority of the Church ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 114, No. 6. 
 (Deut. 17.) If thou perceive 
 that there be among you a 
 hard and doubtful matter in 
 judgment between blood and 
 blood, cause and cause, leprosy 
 and leprosy : and thou see that 
 the words of the j udges within 
 thy gates do vary : arise, and 
 go up to the place, which the 
 
 Lord thy God shall choose. And 
 thou shalt come to the priests 
 of the Levitical race, and to 
 the judge, that shall be at that 
 time : and thou shalt ask of 
 them, and they shal} shew thee 
 the truth of the judgment. And 
 thou shalt do whatsoever they 
 shall say, that preside in the 
 place, which the Lord shall 
 choose, and what they shall 
 teach thee, according to his 
 law ; and thou shalt follow their 
 sentence: neither shalt thou 
 decline to the right hand nor 
 to the left hand. But he that 
 will be proud, and refuse to 
 obey the commandment of the 
 priest, who ministereth at that 
 time to the Lord thy God, and 
 the decree of the judge, that 
 man shall die, and thou shalt 
 take away the evil from Israel. 
 
 Q. ^What do you mean by the 
 infallibility of the Church ? 
 
 See '• L of C," p. 50, No. 10. 
 
 (I. Tim. 3.) These things I 
 
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 write to thee, hoping that I 
 shall come to thee shortly. But 
 if I tarry long, that thou ma}^- 
 est know how thou oughtest to 
 behave thyself in the house of 
 God, which is the church of the 
 living God, the pillar and 
 ground of the truth. 
 
 (III. Kings 7. A. M. 3000.) 
 Solomon set up the two pillars 
 in the porch of the temple : and 
 when he had set up tlie pillar 
 on the right hand, he called 
 the name thereof Jachin : in 
 like manner he set up tlie 
 second pillar, and called the 
 name thereof Booz. 
 
 Q. "When does the Church 
 teach infallibly ? 
 
 See ''L. of C," p. 106, No. 11. 
 
 Q. What do you mean by 
 the indefectibility of the 
 Church? 
 
 (II. Kings 7. A. M. 2960.) 
 When thy days shall be ful- 
 filled, and thou shalt sleep with 
 thy fathers, I will raise up thy 
 seed after thee, which shall pro- 
 ceed out of thy bowels, and I 
 will establish his kingdom. He 
 shall build a house to my name, 
 and I will establish the throne 
 of his kingdom for ever. I 
 will be to him a father, and he 
 shall be to me a son : and thy 
 house shall be faithful, and thy 
 kingdom for ever before thy 
 face, and thy throne shall be 
 firm for ever. 
 
 (lY. Kings 6. A. M. 3116.) 
 The servant of the man of God 
 rising early, went out, and saw 
 an army round about the city, 
 and horses and chariots : and 
 
 he told him, saying : Alas, alas, 
 alas, my lord, what shall we 
 do? But he answered: fear 
 not : for there are more with 
 us than with them. And 
 Eliseus prayed, and said : Lord, 
 open his eyes, that he ma}^ see. 
 And the Lord opened the eyes 
 of the servant, and he saw : 
 and behold the mountain was 
 full of horses, and chariots of 
 fire round about Eliseus. And 
 the enemies came down to him, 
 but Eliseus prayed to the Lord, 
 sa^nng : Strike, I beseech thee, 
 this people with blindness. And 
 the Lord struck them with 
 blindness, according to the 
 word of Eliseus. And Eliseus 
 said to them : This is not the 
 wa}^ neither is this the city : 
 follow me, and I will shew you 
 the man whom you seek. So 
 he led them into Samaria. And 
 a great provision of meats was 
 set before them, and they eat 
 and drank, and he let them go, 
 and they went away to their 
 master, and the robbers of 
 Syria came no more into the 
 land of Israel. 
 
 (Jer. 31. A.M. 3406.) Behold 
 the da3^s shall come, saith the 
 Lord, and I will make a new 
 covenant with the house of 
 Israel, and the house of Juda : 
 not according to the cov- 
 enant which I made with their 
 fathers, in the day that I took 
 them by the hand to bring 
 them out of* the land of Egypt : 
 the covenant which they made 
 void, and I had dominion over 
 them, saith the Lord. But 
 this shall be the covenant, that 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 I will make with the house of 
 Israel, after those days, saith 
 the Lord : I will give my law 
 in their bowels, and I will write 
 it in their heart : and I will be 
 their God, and they shall be 
 my people. If these ordi- 
 nances shall fail before me, 
 saith the Lord : then also the 
 seed of Israel shall fail, so as 
 not to be a nation before me 
 for ever. 
 
 Q. In Tvhom are these at- 
 tributes found in their ful- 
 ness? 
 
 (Dan. 2. A. M. 340L) In 
 the second year of the reign of 
 Nabuchodonosor, Nabuchodon- 
 oser had a dream, and his spirit 
 was terrified, and his dream 
 went out of his mind. Then 
 the king commanded to call to- 
 gether the diviners and the 
 wise men, and the magicians, 
 and the Chaldeans : to declare 
 to the king his dreams : so they 
 came and stood before the king. 
 And the king said to them : I 
 saw a dream : and being 
 troubled in mind I know not 
 what I saw. The thing is gone 
 out of my mind : unless you 
 tell me the dream, and the 
 meaning thereof, you shall be 
 put to death, and your houses 
 shall be confiscated. But if 
 3^ou tell the dream, and the 
 meaning of it, you shall receive 
 of me rewards, and gifts, and 
 great honour : therefore tell 
 me the dream, and the interpre- 
 tation thereof. Then the Chal- 
 deans answered before the king, 
 and said : The thing that thou 
 
 askest, king, is difficult : nor 
 can any one be found that can 
 shew it before the king, except 
 the gods, whose conversation is 
 not with men. Upon hearing 
 this, the king in fury, and in 
 great wrath, commanded that 
 all the wise men of Babylon 
 should be put to death. And 
 the decree being gone forth, the 
 wise men were slain : and Dan- 
 iel and his companions were 
 sought for, to be put to death. 
 Then was the mystery revealed 
 to Daniel by a vision in the 
 night : and Daniel blessed the 
 God of heaven. Then Arioch 
 in haste brought in Daniel to 
 the king, and said to him: I 
 have found a man of the chil- 
 dren of the captivity of Juda, 
 that will resolve the question to 
 the king. The king answered, 
 and said to Daniel, whose name 
 was Baltassar : Thinkest thou 
 indeed that thou canst tell me 
 the dream that I saw, and the 
 interpretation thereof ? And 
 Daniel made answer before the 
 king, and said: Thou, O king, 
 sawest, and behold there was 
 as it were a great statue : this 
 statue, which was great and 
 high, tall of stature, stood be- 
 fore thee, and the look thereof 
 was terrible. The head of this 
 statue was of fine gold, but the 
 breast and the arms of silver, 
 and the belly and the thighs of 
 brass : and the legs of iron, the 
 feet part of iron and part of 
 clay. Thus thou sawest, till a 
 stone was cut out of a moun- 
 tain without hands : and it 
 struck the statue upon the feet 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 thereof that were of iron and 
 of clay, and broke them in 
 pieces ; but the stone that 
 struck the statue, became a 
 great mountain, and filled the 
 whole earth. This is the dream : 
 we will also tell the interpreta- 
 tion thereof before thee, king. 
 Thou art a king of kings : and 
 the God of heaven hath given 
 thee a kingdom, and strength, 
 and power, and glory : thou 
 therefore art the head of gold. 
 And after thee shall rise up an- 
 other kingdom, inferior to thee, 
 of silver : and another third 
 kingdom of brass, which shall 
 rule over all the world. And 
 the fourth kingdom shall be as 
 iron. As iron breaketh into 
 pieces, and subdueth all things, 
 so shall that break and destroy 
 all these. And whereas thou 
 sawest the feet, and the toes, 
 part of potter's clay, and part 
 of iron : the kingdom shall be 
 divided. But in the days of 
 those kingdoms the God of 
 heaven will set up a kingdom 
 that shall never be destroyed, 
 and his kingdom shall not be 
 delivered up to another people, 
 and it shall break in pieces, 
 and shall consume all these 
 kingdoms, and itself shall stand 
 for ever. Then the king ad- 
 vanced Daniel to a high station, 
 and gave him many and great 
 gifts : and he made him gov- 
 ernor over all the provinces of 
 Babylon, and chief of the mag- 
 istrates OA^er all the wise men 
 of Babylon. 
 
 Q. Has the Church any ma-rksi 
 by -which it may bo known? 
 
 (Eph. 4.) I therefore, a 
 prisoner in the Lord, beseech 
 you that you walk worthy of 
 the vocation in which you are 
 called, with all humility and 
 mildness, with patience, sup- 
 porting one another in charity. 
 Careful to keep the unity of 
 the Spirit in the bond of peace. 
 One body and one Spirit ; as 
 you are called in one hope of 
 your calling. One Lord, one 
 faith, one baptism. One God 
 and Father of all, who is above 
 all, and through all, and in us 
 all. But to every one of us is 
 given grace, according to the 
 measure of the giving of Christ. 
 
 Q. How is the Church One ? 
 
 See " L of C," P- 37, No. 28; p. 48, No. 4 ; 
 p. 53, No. 17. 
 
 Q. How is the Church Holy ? 
 (I. Peter 1.) Wherefore hav- 
 ing the loins of your mind girt 
 up, being sober, trust perfectly 
 in the grace which is offered 
 3'ou in the revelation of Jesus 
 Christ, as children of obe- 
 dience, not fashioned according 
 to the former desires of yowY 
 ignorance : but according to 
 him that hath called you, who 
 is Holy, be you also in all man- 
 ner of conversation holy : be- 
 cause it is written : You shall 
 he holy ^ for I am holy, 
 
 Q. How is the Church Cath- 
 olic or universal ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 69, No. 39. 
 
 (Zach. 2. A. M. 3485.) I 
 lifted up my ej^es, and saw, and 
 behold a man, with a measur- 
 ing line in his hand. And I 
 said : Whither croest thou ? and 
 
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 he said to me: To measure 
 Jerusalem, and to see how great 
 is the breadtli thereof, and how 
 great the length thereof. And 
 behold the Angel that spoke in 
 me went forth, and another An- 
 gel went out to meet him. And 
 he said to him : Run, speak to 
 this young man, saying : Jeru- 
 salem shall be inhabited with- 
 out walls, by reason of the mul- 
 titude of men, and of the beasts 
 in the midst thereof. And I will 
 be to it, saith the Lord, a wall 
 of fire round about : and I will 
 be in glory in the midst thereof. 
 
 Q. Ho-w is the Church Apos- 
 tolic ? 
 
 See"L. of C.,"p.ll7, No. 9. 
 
 Q. In -which Church are these 
 attributes and marks found? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 124, No. 17. 
 
 (Gal. 1.) Though we, or 
 an angel from heaven, preach a 
 gospel to you besides that 
 which we have preached to you, 
 let him be anathema. As we 
 said before, so now I say again : 
 If any one i^reach to you a gos- 
 pel, besides that which you 
 have received, let him be anath- 
 ema. 
 
 Q. From whom does the 
 Church derive its undying* 
 life and infallible authority? 
 
 (Acts 5. A. D. 33.) When 
 they had brought them, they 
 set them before the council. 
 And the high priest asked 
 them, saying : Commanding 
 we commanded you, that you 
 should not teach in this name ; 
 and behold, you have filled 
 
 Jerusalem with your doctrine, 
 and you have a mind to bring 
 the blood of this man upon us. 
 But Peter and the apostles an- 
 swering, said : We ought to 
 obey Grod, rather than men. 
 But one in the council rising 
 up, a Pharisee, named Gam- 
 aliel, a doctor of the law re- 
 spected by all the people, com- 
 manded the men to be put forth 
 a little while. And he said to 
 them : Ye men of Israel, take 
 heed to yourselves what you 
 intend to do, as touching these 
 men. And now, therefore, I 
 say to you, refrain from these 
 men, and let them alone ; for if 
 this council or this work be of 
 men, it will come to naught : 
 but if it be of God, you cannot 
 overthrow it, lest perhaps you 
 be found even to fight against 
 God. And they consented to 
 him. 
 
 (Isa. 64.) Fear not, for 
 thou shalt not be confounded, 
 nor blush : for thou shalt 
 not be put to shame. For 
 he that made thee shall 
 rule over thee, the Lord of 
 hosts is his name : and thy Re- 
 deemer, the holy one of Israel, 
 shall be called the God of all 
 the earth. For the mountains 
 shall be moved, and the hills 
 shall tremble ; but my mercy 
 shall not depart from thee, and 
 the covenant of my peace shall 
 not be moved : said the Lord 
 that hath mercy on thee. O 
 poor little one, tossed with 
 tempest, without all com- 
 fort, behold I will lay thy 
 stones in order, and will lay 
 
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 tby foundations with sapphires, 
 and I will make thy bulwarks 
 of jasper : and thy gates of 
 graven stones, and all thy bor- 
 ders of desirable stones. All 
 thy children shall he taught of 
 the Lord : and great shall be 
 the peace of tby children. And 
 thou shalt be founded in jus- 
 tice : depart far from oppres- 
 sion, for thou shalt not fear ; 
 and from terror, for it shall not 
 come near thee. No weapon 
 that is formed against thee 
 shall prosper : and every tongue 
 that resisteth thee in judgment, 
 thou shalt condemn. This is 
 the inheritance of the servants 
 of tlie Lord, and their justice 
 with me, saith the Lord. 
 
 Q. By -whom is the Church 
 made and. kept One, Holy, 
 and Catholic ? 
 
 (Judg. 7. A. M. 2759.) The 
 Lord said to Gedeon : The peo- 
 ple that are with thee are 
 many, and Madian shall not be 
 delivered into their hands : lest 
 Israel should glorj^ against me, 
 and say : I was delivered b}^ 
 my own strength. Speak to 
 the people, and proclaim in the 
 hearing of all, Whosoever is 
 
 fearful and timorous let him 
 return. So two and twenty 
 thousand men went away from 
 mount Galaad and returned 
 home, and only ten thousand 
 remained. And the Lord said 
 to Gedeon : The people are 
 still too many, bring them to 
 the waters, and there I will 
 try them : and of whom I shall 
 say to thee. This shall go with 
 thee, let him go : whom I shall 
 forbid to go, let him return. 
 And when the people were 
 come down to the waters, the 
 Lord said to Gedeon : They 
 that shall lap the water with 
 their tongues, as dogs are wont 
 to lap, thou shalt set apart by 
 themselves : but they that 
 shall drink bowing down their 
 knees, shall be on the other 
 side. And the number of them 
 that had lapped water, casting 
 it with the hand to their mouth, 
 was three hundred men : and all 
 the rest of the multitude had 
 drunk kneeling. And the Lord 
 said to Gedeon : By the three 
 hundred men, that lapped 
 water, I will save you, and de- 
 liver Madian into thy hand : 
 but let all the rest of the people 
 return to their place. 
 
 LESSON THIRTEENTH. 
 
 ON THE SACRAMENTS IN GENERAL. 
 
 Q. "What is a Sacrament ? 
 
 (Num. 35. A. M. 2553.-) The 
 Lord spoke these things also to 
 Moses in the plains of Moab by 
 
 the Jordan, over-against Jer- 
 icho : Command the children 
 of Israel that they give to the 
 Levites out of their possessions, 
 
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 cities to dwell in, and their sub- 
 urbs round about : that thej^ 
 may abide in the towns, and 
 the suburbs may be for their 
 cattle and beasts : and among 
 the cities, which you shall give 
 to the Levites, seven shall be 
 separated for refuge to fugi- 
 tives, that he who hath shed 
 blood may flee to them : and be- 
 sides these there shall be other 
 forty-two cities, and when the 
 fugitive shall be in them, the 
 kinsman of him that is slain 
 may not have power to kill 
 him, until he stand before the 
 multitude, and his cause be 
 judged. And of those cities, 
 that are separated for the 
 refuge of fugitives, three shall 
 be beyond the Jordan, and three 
 in the land of Chanaan,as well 
 for the children of Israel as for 
 strangers and sojourners, that 
 he may flee to them, who hath 
 shed blood against his will. 
 
 Q. How many Sacraments 
 are there ? 
 
 (Gen. 17. A. M. 2093.) This 
 is my covenant which 3^ou shall 
 observe, between me and you, 
 and thy seed after thee: All 
 the male kind of you shall be 
 circumcised : an infant of 
 eight days old shall be circum- 
 cised among you, ^y^vy man 
 child in your generations : he 
 that is born in the house, as 
 well as the bought servant shall 
 be circumcised, and whosoever 
 is not of your stock : and my 
 covenant shall be in your flesh 
 for a perpetual covenant. The 
 male, who shall not be circum- 
 
 cised, that soul shall be de- 
 stroyed out of his people : be- 
 cause he hath broken my cov- 
 enant. 
 
 (Lev. 12. A.M. 2514.) The 
 Lord spoke to Moses, saying : 
 Speak to the children of Israel, 
 and thou shall say to them : If 
 a woman shall bear a man-child, 
 she shall be unclean seven days. 
 But if she shall bear a maid- 
 child, she shall be unclean two 
 weeks, and when the days of 
 her purification are expired, for 
 a son, or for a daughter, she 
 shall bring to the door of the 
 tabernacle of the testimony, a 
 lamb of a year old for a holo- 
 caust, and a young pigeon or a 
 turtle for sin, and shall deliver 
 them to the priest : who shall 
 offer them before the Lord, and 
 shall pray for her, and so she 
 shall be cleansed from the issue 
 of her blood. This is the law 
 for her that beareth a man-child 
 or a maid-child. And if her 
 hand find not suflSciency, and 
 she is not able to offer a lamb, 
 she shall take two turtles, or 
 two young pigeons, one for a 
 holocaust, and another for sin : 
 and the priest shall pray for 
 her, and so she shall be cleansed. 
 
 (Ex. 12. A. M. 2513.) The 
 Lord said to Moses and Aaron 
 in the land of Egypt: Speak ye 
 to the whole assembly of the 
 children of Israel, and say to 
 them : On the tenth day of this 
 month let every man take a 
 lamb by their families and 
 houses. But if the number be 
 less than may suflSce to eat the 
 lamb, he shall take unto him 
 
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 his neighbor that joineth to his 
 house, according to the number 
 of souls which may be enough 
 to eat the lamb. And it shall 
 be a lamb without blemish, a 
 male, of one year : according to 
 which rite also you shall take a 
 kid. And you shall keep it 
 until the fourteenth day of this 
 month : and the whole miilti- 
 tude of the children of Israel 
 shall sacrifice it in the evening. 
 And they shall take of the blood 
 thereof, and put it upon both 
 the side posts, and on the upper 
 door-posts of the houses, where- 
 in they shall eat it. And they 
 shall eat the flesh that night 
 roasted at the fire, and un- 
 leavened bread with wild 
 lettuce. You shall not eat 
 thereof anything raw, nor 
 boiled in water, but only 
 roasted at the fire: you shall 
 eat the head with the feet and 
 entrails thereof. Neither shall 
 there remain any thing of it un- 
 til morning. If there be any 
 thing left, you shall burn it 
 with fire. And thus you shall 
 eat it: you shall gird your 
 reins, and you shall have shoes 
 on your feet, holding staves in 
 your hands, and you shall eat 
 in haste : for it is the Phase 
 (that is the Passage) of the 
 Lord. 
 
 (Ex. 29.) Thou Shalt also 
 do this, but they may be con- 
 secrated to me in priesthood. 
 Thou shalt bring Aaron to the 
 door of the tabernacle of the 
 testimony. And when thou 
 hast washed him with water, 
 thou shalt clothe Aaron with 
 
 his vestments, that is, with the 
 linen garment and the tunick, 
 and the ephod and the rational, 
 which thou shalt gird with the 
 girdle. And thou shalt put 
 the mitre upon his head, and 
 the hol}^ plate upon the mitre, 
 and thou shalt pour the oil of 
 unction upon his head : and by 
 this rite shall he be conse- 
 crated. 
 
 Q. Whence have the Sacra- 
 ments the power of giving 
 grace ? 
 
 (Acts 3-4. A. D. 33.) Now 
 Peter and John went up into 
 the temple at the ninth hour 
 of prayer. And a certain man 
 who was lame from his mother's 
 womb, was carried : whom they 
 laid ever}^ da}^ at the gate of 
 the temple, which is called 
 Beautiful, that he might ask 
 alms of them that went into 
 the temple. He, when he had 
 seen Peter and John about to 
 go into the temple, asked to re- 
 ceive an alms. But Peter with 
 John fastening his eyes upon 
 him, said : Look upon us. But 
 he looked earnestly upon them, 
 hoping that he should receive 
 something of them. But Peter 
 said : Silver and gold I have 
 none ; but what I have, I give 
 thee : In the name of Jesus 
 Christ of Nazareth, arise, and 
 walk. And taking him by the 
 right hand, he lifted him up, and 
 forthwith his feet and soles re- 
 ceived strength. And he leap- 
 ing up, stood, and walked, and 
 went in with them into the 
 temple, walking, and leax)ing, 
 
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 and praising God. And all the 
 people saw him walking and 
 praising God. And they knew 
 him, that it was he who sat 
 begging alms at the beautiful 
 gate of the temple : and the}^ 
 were filled with wonder and 
 amazement at that which had 
 happened to him. And as he 
 held Peter and John, all the 
 people ran to them to the porch 
 which is called Solomon's, 
 greatly wondering. But Peter 
 seeing, made answer to the 
 people : If we this day are ex- 
 amined concerning the good 
 deed done to the infirm man, b}^ 
 what means he hath been made 
 whole : be it known to 3^ou all, 
 and to all the people of Israel, 
 that by the name of our Lord 
 Jesus Christ of Nazareth, 
 whom you crucified, whom God 
 hath raised from the dead, even 
 by him this man standeth here 
 before you whole. This is the 
 stone which was rejected by you 
 the builders, which is become the 
 head of the corner. Neither is 
 there salvation in any other. 
 For there is no other name un- 
 der heaven given to men, 
 whereby we must be saved. 
 
 Q. What grace do the Sacra- 
 ments give ? 
 
 (Acts 16. A. D. 51.) Fpon 
 the sabbath-day, we went forth 
 without the gate by a river- 
 side, where it seemed that there 
 was prayer ; and sitting down, 
 we spoke to the women that 
 were assembled. And a certain 
 woman named Lydia, a seller 
 of purple, of the city of Tli^-a- 
 
 tira, one that worshipped God, 
 did hear : whose heart the Lord 
 opened to attend to those 
 things which were said by 
 Paul. And when she r/as bap- 
 tized, and her household, she 
 besought us, saying : If you 
 have judged me to be faithful 
 to the Lord, come into my 
 house, and abide there. And 
 she constrained us. And it 
 came to pass, as we went to 
 prayer, a certain girl, having a 
 P3^thonical spirit, met us, who 
 brought to her masters much 
 gain by divining. This same 
 following Paul and us, cried 
 out, saying : These men are the 
 servants of the most high God, 
 who preach unto you the way 
 of salvation. And this she did 
 many days. But Paul being 
 grieved, turned, and said to the 
 spirit : I command thee, in the 
 name of Jesus Christ, to go 
 out from her. And he went 
 out the same hour. But her 
 masters, seeing that the hope 
 of their gain was gone, appre- 
 hending Paul and Silas, 
 brought them into the market- 
 place to the rulers. And when 
 they had laid many stripes up- 
 on them, they cast them into 
 prison, charging the gaoler to 
 keep them diligently. Who 
 having received such a charge, 
 thrust them into the inner pris- 
 on, and made their feet fast in 
 the stocks. And at midnight, 
 Paul and Silas praying, praised 
 God. And they that were in 
 prison, heard them. And sud- 
 denly there was a great earth- 
 quake, so that the foundations 
 
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 CATECHISM, 
 
 of the prison were shaken. 
 And immediately all the doors 
 were opened, and the bands of 
 all were loosed. And the keep- 
 er of the prison, awaking out 
 of his sleep, and seeing the 
 doors of the prison open, draw- 
 ing his sword, would have killed 
 himself, supposing that the 
 prisoners had been fled. But 
 Paul cried with a loud voice, 
 saying : Do thyself no harm, 
 for we all are here. Then call- 
 ing for a light, he went in, and 
 trembling, fell down at the feet 
 of Paul and Silas. And bring- 
 ing them out, he said : Mas- 
 ters, what must I do, that I 
 may be saved ? But they said : 
 Believe in the Lord Jesus, and 
 thou shalt be saved, and thy 
 house. And they preached the 
 word of the Lord to him and to 
 all that were in his house. And 
 he, taking them the same hour 
 of the night, washed their 
 stripes, and himself was bap- 
 tized, and all his house imme- 
 diately. 
 
 Q. "Which are the Sacra- 
 ments that give sanctifying 
 grace? 
 
 (Acts 9. A. D. 34.) Saul, as 
 yet breathing out threatenings 
 and slaughter against the dis- 
 ciples of the Lord, went to the 
 high priest, and asked of him 
 letters to Damascus, to the 
 sjmagogues: that if he found 
 any men and women of this 
 way, he might bring them 
 bound to Jerusalem. And as 
 he went on his journey, it came 
 to pass that he drew nigh to 
 
 Damascus ; and suddenly a 
 light from heaven shined round 
 about him. And falling on the 
 ground, he heard a voice saying 
 to him : Saul, Saul, wh}^ perse^. 
 cutest thou me ? Who said : 
 Who art thou, Lord ? And he; 
 I am Jesus whom thou perse- 
 cutest. It is hard for thee to 
 kick against the goad. And he 
 trembling and astonished, said : 
 Lord, what wilt thou have me 
 to do ? And the Lord said to 
 him : Arise, and go into the 
 city, and there it shall be told 
 thee what thou must do. Now 
 the men who went in company 
 with him, stood amazed, hear- 
 ing indeed a voice, but seeing 
 no man. And Saul arose from 
 the ground ; and when his eyes 
 were opened, he saw nothing. 
 But they leading him by the 
 hands, brought him to Damas- 
 cus. And he was there three 
 days, without sight, and he did 
 neither eat nor drink. Now 
 there was a certain disciple at 
 Damascus, named Ananias. 
 And the Lord said to him in a 
 vision : Ananias. And he said : 
 Behold I am here. Lord. And 
 the Lord said to him : Arise, 
 and go into the street that is 
 called Strait, and seek in the 
 house of Judas, one named Saul 
 of Tarsus. For behold he 
 prayeth. And Ananias went 
 his way, and entered into the 
 house. And laying his hands 
 upon him, he said : Brother 
 Saul, the Lord Jesus hath sent 
 me. he that appeared to thee in 
 the way as thou earnest ; that 
 thou mayest receive thy sight 
 
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 and be filled with the Holy 
 Ghost. And immediately there 
 fell from his eyes as it were 
 scales, and he received his 
 sight ; and rising up, he was 
 baptized. And when many days 
 were passed, the Jews consulted 
 together to kill him. But their 
 laying in wait was made known 
 to Saul. And they watched 
 the gates also day and night, 
 that they might kill him. But 
 the disciples taking him in the 
 night, conveyed him away by 
 the wall, letting him down in a 
 basket. 
 
 Q. "Why are Baptism and 
 Penance called Sacraments 
 of the dead ? 
 
 See •* L. of C," p. 127, No. 26. 
 
 Q. "Which are the Sacra- 
 ments that increase sancti- 
 fying grace in our soul ? 
 
 (Apoc. 22. A. D. 64.) The 
 Angel saith to me : Seal not the 
 words of the prophecy of this 
 book : for the time is at hand. 
 He that hurteth, let him hurt 
 still : and he that is filthy, let 
 him be filthy still : and he that 
 is just, let him be justified 
 still : and he that is holy, let 
 him be sanctified still. Behold, 
 I come quickly ; and my re- 
 ward is with me, to render to 
 every man according to his 
 works. 
 
 Q. Why are Confirmation, 
 Holy Eucharist, Extreme 
 Unction, Holy Orders, and 
 Matrimony called Sacra- 
 ments of the living ? 
 
 (Phil. 1.) Grace be unto 
 you, and peace from God our 
 
 Father, and from the Lord 
 Jesus Christ. I give thanks 
 to my God in every remem- 
 brance of you, being con- 
 fident of this very thing, that 
 he, who hath begun a good 
 work in you, will perfect it 
 unto the day of Christ Jesus. 
 
 Q. "WTiat sin does he com- 
 mit -who receives the Sacra- 
 ments of the living in mor- 
 tal sin ? 
 
 (I. Cor. 11.) Whosoever 
 shall eat this bread, or drink 
 the chalice of the Lord un- 
 worthily, shall be guilty of the 
 body and of the blood of the 
 Lord. 
 
 Q. Besides sanctifying grace 
 do the Sacraments give any 
 other grace ? 
 
 (Ps. 22.) The Lord hath 
 brought me up, on the water of 
 refreshment : he hath converted 
 my soul. He hath led me on 
 the path of justice, for his own 
 name's sake. For though I 
 should walk in the midst of the 
 shadow of death, I will fear no 
 evils, for thou art with me. 
 Thy rod and thy staff", they 
 have comforted me. Thou hast 
 prepared a table before me, 
 against them that aflflict me. 
 Thou hast anointed my head 
 with oil ; and my chalice which 
 inebriateth me^ how goodly is 
 it 1 And thy mercy will follow 
 me all the days of my life. 
 And that I may dwell in the 
 house of the Lord unto length 
 of days. 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 Q. What is sacramental 
 grace ? 
 
 (Phil. 1.) I give thanks 
 to in}^ God ill every remem- 
 brance of you, always in all 
 my prayers making supplica- 
 tion for you all, with joy. For 
 your communication in the 
 gospel of Christ from the first 
 day until now. Being con- 
 fident of this very thing, that 
 he, who hath begun a good 
 work in you, will perfect it 
 unto the day of Christ Jesus. 
 
 Q. Do the Sacraments al- 
 "ways give grace ? 
 
 See ''L. of C," p. 34, No. 19; p. 89, No. 
 
 26. 
 
 (Isa. 55.) All you that 
 thirst, come to the waters : and 
 you that have no money make 
 haste, buy, and eat ; come 
 ye, buy wine and milk with- 
 out money, and without any 
 price. Seek ye the Lord, while 
 he may be found : call upon 
 him, while he is near. Let the 
 wicked forsake his w^ay, and 
 the unjust man his thoughts, 
 and let hira return to the Lord, 
 and he will have mercy on him, 
 and to our God : for he is 
 bountiful to forgive. For 
 my thoughts are not your 
 thoughts : nor your ways my 
 ways, saith the Lord. For as 
 the heavens are exalted above 
 the earth, so are my ways 
 exalted above your ways, and 
 my thoughts above your 
 thoughts. And as the rain 
 and the snow come down from 
 heaven, and return no more 
 thither, but soak the earth, and 
 
 water it, and make it to spring, 
 and give seed to the sower, 
 and bread to the eater : so 
 shall my word be, which shall 
 go forth from my mouth ; it 
 shall not return to me void, but 
 it shall do whatsoever I please, 
 and shall prosper in the things 
 for which I sent it. 
 
 Q. Can -we receive the Sacra- 
 ments more than once ? 
 
 (Prov. 24.) A just man 
 shall fall seven times and shall 
 rise again : but the wicked shall 
 fall down into evil. 
 
 Q. "Why can "we not receive 
 Baptism, Confirmation, and 
 Holy Orders more than 
 once? 
 
 (Ezek. 9. A. M. 3410.) The 
 Lord said to him : Go through 
 the midst of the city, through 
 the midst of Jerusalem : and 
 mark Thau upon the foreheads 
 of the men that sigh, and 
 mourn for all the abominations 
 that are committed in the midst 
 thereof. And to the others he 
 said in my hearing; Go ye 
 after him through the city, and 
 strike : let not 3^our eyes spare, 
 nor be ye moved with pity. 
 Utterly destroy old and young, 
 maidens, children and women : 
 but upon whomsoever yon shall 
 see Thau, kill him not, and be- 
 gin ye at my sanctuar3^ 
 
 Q. "What is the character 
 -which these Sacraments 
 imprint in the soul ? 
 
 (Apoc. 7.) I saw another 
 Angel ascending from the ris- 
 ing of the sun, having the sign 
 
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 of the living God ; and be cried 
 with a loud voice to the four 
 Angels, to whom it was given 
 to hurt the earth and the sea, 
 saying : Hurt not the earth, 
 nor the sea, nor the trees, till 
 we sisfn the servants of our God 
 in their foreheads. 
 
 Q. Does this character re- 
 main in the soul even after 
 death ? 
 
 (Apoc. 14.) The third Angel 
 followed them, saying with a 
 loud voice : If any man shall 
 adore the beast and his image, 
 and receive his character in his 
 forehead, or in his hand ; be 
 
 also shall drink of the wine of 
 the wrath of God, which is 
 mingled with pure wine in the 
 cup of his wrath, and shall be 
 tormented with tire and brim- 
 stone in the sight of the holy 
 Angels, and in the sight of the 
 Lamb. And the smol^e of their 
 torments shall ascend up for 
 ever and ever : neither have 
 they rest da}^ nor night, who 
 have adored the beast, and his 
 image, and whoever receiveth 
 the character of his name. 
 
 (Heb. 7.) For he testifieth : 
 Thou a7't a priest for ever, ac- 
 cording to the order of Mel- 
 chisedech. 
 
 LESSON FOURTEENTH, 
 
 ON BAPTISM. 
 
 Q. What is Baptism ? 
 
 (Isa. 44.) Fear not, my 
 servant Jacob, and thou most 
 righteous whom I have chosen. 
 For I will pour out waters upon 
 the thirsty ground, and streams 
 upon the dry land : I will pour 
 out my spirit upon thy seed, 
 and my blessing upon thy stock. 
 
 (Num. 9. A. M. 2514.) Now 
 on the day that the tabernacle 
 was reared up, a cloud covered 
 it. But from the evening there 
 was over the tabernacle, as it 
 were, the appearance of fire 
 until the morning. So it was 
 always : by day the cloud cov- 
 ered it, and by night as it were 
 the appearance of fire. And 
 when the cloud that covered 
 
 the tabernacle was taken up, 
 then the children of Israel 
 marched forward : and in the 
 place where the cloud stood 
 still, there they camped. At 
 the commandment of the Lord 
 they marched, and at his com- 
 mandment they pitched the 
 tabernacle. All the days that 
 the cloud abode over the 
 tabernacle, they remained in 
 the same place : and if it was 
 so that it continued over it a 
 long time, the children of Israel 
 kept the watches of the Lord, 
 and marched not, for as many 
 days soever as the cloud staid 
 over tlie tabernacle. At the 
 commandment of the Lord they 
 pitched their tents, and at his 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 commandment they took them 
 down. If the cloud tarried from 
 evening until morning, and im- 
 mediately at break of day left 
 the tabernacle, they marched 
 forward : and if it departed af- 
 ter a day and a night, they 
 took down their tents. But if 
 it remained over the tabernacle 
 for two days or a month or a 
 longer time, the children of 
 Israel remained in the same 
 place, and marched not: but 
 immediately as soon as it de- 
 parted, the}^ removed the camp. 
 By the word of the Lord they 
 pitched their tents, and by his 
 word they marched : and kept 
 the watches of the Lord accord- 
 ing to his commandment by the 
 hand of Moses. 
 
 Q. Are actual sins ever re- 
 mitted by Baptism ? 
 
 (Ezek. 36.) I will pour upon 
 you clean water, and you shall 
 be cleansed from all your filthi- 
 ness, and I will cleanse you 
 from all your idols. And will 
 give you a new heart, and put 
 a new spirit wathin you : and I 
 will take away the stony heart 
 out of your flesh, had will give 
 you a heart of flesh. And I wMll 
 put my spirit in the midst of 
 you : and I will cause you to 
 walk in my commandments, 
 and to keep my judgments, and 
 do them. And you shall dwell 
 in the land which I gave to your 
 fathers, and you shall be my 
 people, and I will be your God. 
 
 Q. Is Baptism necessary to 
 salvation ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 11, No. 10; p. 16, No. 4; 
 p. 20, No. 3. 
 
 (Ex. 14. A. M. 2513.) The 
 Lord hardened the heart of 
 Pharao king of Egypt, and he 
 pursued the children of Israel ; 
 But they were gone forth in a 
 mighty hand. And when the 
 Egyptians followed the steps of 
 them who were gone before, 
 they found them encamped at 
 the sea side : and the Lord said 
 to Moses : Why criest thou to 
 me ? Speak to the children of 
 Israel to go forward. But lift 
 thou up thy rod, and stretch 
 forth thy hand over the sea, 
 and divide it : that the children 
 of Israel may go through the 
 midst of the sea on dry ground. 
 And when Moses had stretched 
 forth his hand over the sea, the 
 Lord took it away by a strong 
 and burning wind blowing all 
 the night, and turned it into 
 dry ground : and the water was 
 divided. And the children of 
 Israel went in through the 
 midst of the sea dried up: for 
 the water was as a wall on 
 their right hand and on their 
 left. And the Egyptians pursu- 
 ing went in after them, and all 
 Pharao's horses, his chariots 
 and horsemen through the 
 midst of the sea. And when 
 Moses had stretched forth his 
 hand towards the sea, it re- 
 turned at the first break of day 
 to the former place : and as the 
 Egyptians were fleeing away, 
 the waters came upon them, 
 and the Lord shut them up in 
 the middle of the waves. 
 
 Q. Who can administer Bap- 
 tism? 
 See *♦ L. of C," p. 17, No. 6; p. 21, No. 4. 
 
CATECHISM, 
 
 81 
 
 Q. How is Baptism given ? 
 
 See "L. of C, p." 16, No. 3; p. 48, No. 5. 
 
 Q. How many kinds of Bap- 
 tism are there ? 
 
 (I. John 5.) This is he that 
 came by water and blood, Jesus 
 Christ: not by water only, but 
 by water and blood. And it is 
 the Spirit which testifieth, that 
 Christ is the truth. And there 
 are three that give testimony on 
 earth : the spirit, and the water, 
 and the blood : and these three 
 are one. 
 
 Q. "What is Baptism of wa- 
 ter? 
 
 See-'L. of C.,"p.28,No. 1. 
 
 Q. "What is Baptism of de- 
 sire? 
 
 (Acts 11. A. D. 40.) When 
 Peter was come up to Jerusa- 
 lem, they that were of the cir- 
 cumcision contended with him, 
 saying : Why didst thou go into 
 men uncircumcised, and didst 
 eat with them ? But Peter be- 
 gan and declared to them the 
 matter in order, saying : I was 
 in the city of Joppe praying, 
 and I saw in an ecstasy of mind 
 a vision, a certain vessel de- 
 scending, as it were a great 
 sheet let down from heaven by 
 four corners, and it came even 
 unto me. Into which looking, 
 I considered, and saw four- 
 footed creatures of the earth, 
 and beasts, and creeping things, 
 and fowls of the air : and I 
 heard also a voice saying to 
 me : Arise, Peter : kill and eat. 
 And I said : Not so. Lord ; for 
 nothing common or unclean 
 hath ever entered into my 
 6' 
 
 mouth. And the voice answered 
 again from heaven : What God 
 hatli made clean, do not tliou 
 call common. And this was 
 done three times : and all were 
 taken up again into heaven. 
 And behold, immediately there 
 were three men come to the 
 house wherein I was, sent to 
 me from Cesarea. And the 
 Spirit said to me, that I should 
 go with them, nothing doubt- 
 in or. And these six brethren 
 
 CI? 
 
 went with me also : and we en- 
 tered into the man's house. And 
 he told us how he had seen an 
 angel in his house, standing, 
 and saying to him : Send to 
 Joppe, and call hither Simon, 
 who is surnamed Peter, who 
 shall speak to thee words, 
 whereby thou shalt be saved, 
 and all thy house. And when 
 I had begun to speak, the Holy 
 Ghost fell upon them, as upon 
 us also in the beginning. And 
 I remembered the word of the 
 Lord, how that he said : John 
 indeed baptized with water ^ hut 
 you shall be baptized with the 
 Holy Ghost, If then God gave 
 them the same grace, as to us 
 also who believed in the Lord 
 Jesus Christ; who was I, that 
 could withstand God ? 
 
 Q. "What is Baptismt of 
 blood ? 
 
 See"L. ofC.,"p. 13, No. 14. 
 
 (Ex. 4. A. M. 2513.) When 
 Moses was in his journey, in 
 the inn, the Lord met him, and 
 would have killed him. Imme- 
 diately Sephora took a very 
 sharp stone, and circumcised 
 
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 her son, and touched his feet, 
 and said : A bloody spouse art 
 thou to me. And he let him go 
 after she had said : A bloody 
 spouse thou art to me, because 
 of the circumcision. 
 
 Q. Is Baptism of desire or of 
 blood sufficient to produce 
 the effects of Baptism of 
 water ? 
 
 (Acts 8. A. D. 34.) Now an 
 Angel of the Lord spoke to 
 Philip, saying : Arise, go to- 
 wards the south, to the way 
 that goeth down from Jerusa- 
 lem into Gaza : this is desert. 
 And rising up, he went. And 
 behold a man of Ethiopia, an 
 eunuch, of great authority un- 
 der Candace the queen of the 
 Ethiopians, who had charge 
 over all her treasures, had come 
 to Jerusalem to adore. And 
 he was returning, sitting in his 
 chariot, and reading Isaias the 
 prophet ; then Philip, opening 
 his mouth, and beginning at 
 this scripture, preached unto 
 him Jesus. And as they went 
 on their way they came to a 
 certain water; and the eunuch 
 said : See, here is water : what 
 doth hinder me from being bap- 
 tized? And Philip said: If 
 thou believest with all thy 
 heart, thou mayest. And he 
 answering, said : I believe that 
 Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 
 And he commanded the chariot 
 
 to stand still; and they went 
 down into the water, both Philip 
 and the eunuch : and he bap- 
 tized him. And when they were 
 come up out of the water, the 
 spirit of the Lord took away 
 Philip ; and the eunuch saw 
 him no more. 
 
 (Rom. 4.) This blessedness 
 then doth it remain in the cir- 
 cumcision only, or in the uncir- 
 cumcision also? For we say 
 that unto Abraham faith w^as 
 reputed to justice. How then 
 was it reputed ? When he was 
 in circumcision, or in uncircum- 
 cision ? Not in circumcision, 
 but in uncircumcision. And he 
 received the sign of circumci- 
 sion, a seal of the justice of the 
 faith, which he had, being un- 
 circumcised. 
 
 Q. "What do we promise in 
 Baptism ? 
 
 See " L. of C./' p. 15, No. 2. 
 
 Q. "Why is the name of a 
 saint given in Baptism ? 
 
 See **L. of C," p. 9, No. 7; p. 11, No. 10. 
 
 Q. Why are godfathers and 
 godmothers given in Bap- 
 tism ? 
 
 See"L. of C.,"p. 11, No. 11. 
 
 Q. "What is the obligation of 
 a godfather and a god- 
 mother ? 
 
 (Mark 10: 14.) Suffer the lit- 
 tie children to come to Me, and 
 forbid them not : for of such is 
 the Kingdom of God. 
 
CATECHISM, 
 LESSON FIFTEENTH. 
 
 83 
 
 ON CONFIRMATION. 
 
 Q. "What is Confirmation ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 125, No. 23; p. 126, 
 No. 24. 
 
 (Acts 4. A. D. 33.) As the 
 apostles were speaking to the 
 people, the priests, and the offi- 
 cer of the temple, and the Sad- 
 ducees, came upon them, being 
 grieved that they taught the 
 people, and preached in Jesus 
 the resurrection from the dead : 
 and calling them, they charged 
 them not to speak at all, nor 
 teach in the name of Jesus. 
 But Peter and John answering, 
 said to them: If it be just in 
 the sight of God, to hear you 
 rather than God, judge ye. For 
 we cannot but speak the things 
 which we have seen and heard. 
 And when they had prayed, the 
 place was moved wherein they 
 were assembled ; and they were 
 all filled with the Holy Ghost, 
 and they spoke the word of God 
 with confidence. 
 
 (Job 7.) The life of man 
 upon earth is a warfare, and his 
 days are like the days of a hire- 
 ling. As a servant longeth for 
 the shade, as the hireling look- 
 eth for the end of his work. So 
 I also have had empty months, 
 and have numbered to myself 
 wearisome nights. If I lie 
 down to sleep, I shall say : 
 When shall I arise ? and again 
 I shall look for the evening, and 
 shall be filled with sorrows even 
 till darkness. What is a man 
 that thou shouldst magnify 
 
 him ? or why dost thou set 
 thy heart upon him? Thou 
 visitest him early in the morn- 
 ing and thou provest him sud- 
 denly. 
 
 Q. "Who administers Confir- 
 mation ? 
 
 (Acts 8. A. D. 33.) Now 
 there was a certain man named 
 Simon, who before had been a 
 magician in that city, seducing 
 the people of Samaria, giving 
 out that he was some great one : 
 to whom they all gave ear, from 
 the least to the greatest, saying : 
 This man is the power of God, 
 which is called great. And they 
 wer€ attentive to him, because, 
 for a long time, he had be- 
 witched them with his magical 
 practices. But when they had 
 believed Philip preaching of the 
 kingdom of God, in the name of 
 Jesus Christ, they were bap- 
 tized, both men and women. 
 Then Simon himself believed 
 also ; and being baptized, he 
 stuck close to Philip. And 
 being astonished, wondered to 
 see the signs and exceeding 
 great miracles which were done. 
 Now when the apostles, who 
 were in Jerusalem, had heard 
 that Samaria had received the 
 word of God, they sent unto 
 them Peter and John. Who, 
 when they were come, prayed 
 for them, that they might re- 
 ceive the Hoh^ Ghost. For he 
 was not as yet come upon any 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 of them ; but they were only 
 baptized in the name of the 
 Lord Jesus. Then they laid 
 their hands upon them, and 
 they received the Holy Ghost. 
 And when Simon saw, that by 
 the imposition of the hands of 
 the apostles, the Holy Ghost 
 was given, he offered them 
 money, saying : Give me also 
 this power, that on whomsoever 
 I shall lay 7ny hands, he may 
 receive the Holy Ghost. But 
 Peter said to him ; Keep thy 
 money to thyself, to perish with 
 thee, because thou hast thought 
 that the gift of God may be 
 purchased with money. 
 
 Q. How does the bishop give 
 Confirmation ? 
 
 (I. Kings 10. A. M. 2909.) 
 Samuel took a little vial of oil, 
 and poured it upon Saul's head, 
 and kissed him, and said : Be- 
 hold, the Lord hath anointed 
 thee to be prince over his in- 
 heritance, and thou shalt de- 
 liver his people out of the hands 
 of their enemies, that are round 
 about them. And this shall be 
 a sign unto thee, that God hath 
 anointed thee to be prince. And 
 the Spirit of the Lord shall 
 come upon thee, and thou shalt 
 prophesy with them, and shalt 
 be changed into another man. 
 Saul then departed to his own 
 house in Gabaa : and there went 
 with him a part of the army, 
 whose hearts God had touched. 
 But the children of Belial said: 
 Shall this fellow be able to save 
 us ? And they despised him, 
 and brought him no presents, 
 
 but he dissembled as though he 
 heard not. 
 
 Q. What is holy chrism ? 
 
 (Ex. 30. A. M. 2513.) The 
 Lord spoke to Moses, saying : 
 Take spices, of principal and 
 chosen myrrh five hundred si- 
 des, and of cinnamon half so 
 much, that is, two hundred and 
 fifty sides, of calamus in like 
 manner two hundred and fifty. 
 And of cassia five hundred si- 
 des by the weight of the sanc- 
 tuar3% of oil of olives the meas- 
 ure hin : and thou shalt make 
 the holy oil of unction, an oint- 
 ment compounded after the art 
 of the perfumer, and there- 
 with thou shalt anoint the tab- 
 ernacle of the testimony, and 
 the ark of the testament, and 
 the table with the vessels there- 
 of, the candlestick and furniture 
 thereof, the altars of incense, 
 and of holocaust, and all the 
 furniture that belongeth to the 
 service of them. And thou 
 shalt sanctify all, and they 
 shall be most holy : he that 
 shall touch them shall be sanc- 
 tified. Thou shalt anoint Aaron 
 and his sons, and shalt sanc- 
 tify them, that they ma}^ do 
 the office of priesthood unto me. 
 And thou shalt say to the chil- 
 dren of Israel : This oil of 
 unction shall be holy unto me 
 throughout \your generations. 
 The flesh of man shall not be 
 anointed therewith, and j^ou 
 shall make none other of the 
 same composition, because it is 
 sanctified, and shall be holy 
 unto you. What man soever 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 85 
 
 shall compound such, and shall 
 give thereof to a stranger, he 
 shall be cut off from his people. 
 
 Q. 'What does the bishop 
 say in anointing the person 
 he confirms ? 
 
 (II. Cor. 1.) Now he that con- 
 firmeth us with you in Christ, 
 and that hath anointed us, is 
 God : who also hath sealed us, 
 and given the pledge of the 
 Spirit in our hearts. 
 
 Q. What is meant by an- 
 ointing the forehead "with 
 chrism in the form of a 
 cross ? 
 
 (Ezek. 9.) The Lord said 
 to him : Go through the midst 
 of the city, through the midst 
 of Jerusalem : and mark Thau 
 upon the foreheads of the men. 
 
 Q. "Why does the bishop give 
 the person he confirms a 
 slight blo-w on the cheek ? 
 
 (Rom. 8.) The Spirit him- 
 self giveth testimony to our 
 spirit, that we are the sons of 
 God. And if sons, heirs also ; 
 heirs indeed of God, and joint- 
 heirs with Christ: yet so, if we 
 suffer with him, that we may 
 be also glorified with him. For 
 I reckon that the sufferings of 
 this time are not worthy to be 
 compared with the glory to 
 come, that shall be revealed in 
 us. Who then shall separate 
 us from the love of Christ? 
 Shall tribulation ? or distress ? 
 or famine ? or nakedness ? or 
 danger ? or persecution ? or the 
 sword? (As it is written : For 
 
 thy sake ive are put to death all 
 the day long. We are accounted 
 as sheep for the slaughter.) But 
 in all these things we overcome, 
 because of him that hath loved 
 us. For I am sure that neither 
 death, nor life, nor Angels, nor 
 principalities, nor powers, nor 
 things present, nor things to 
 come, nor might, nor height, 
 nor depth, nor any other crea- 
 ture, shall be able to separate 
 us from the love of God, which 
 is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 
 
 Q. To receive Confirmation 
 "worthily is it necessary to 
 be in the state of grace ? 
 
 (Wisd. 1.) Wisdom will not 
 enter into a malicious soul, nor 
 dwell in a body subject to sins. 
 For the Hol}^ Spirit of disci- 
 pline will flee from the deceitful, 
 and will withdraw himself from 
 thoughts that are without un- 
 derstanding, and he shall not 
 abide when iniquity cometli in. 
 
 Q. "What special prepar- 
 ation should be made to re- 
 ceive Confirmation ? 
 
 (Acts 19. A. D. 54.) It 
 came to pass, while Apollo was 
 at Corinth, that Paul having 
 passed through the upper 
 coasts, came to Ephesus, and 
 found certain disciples. And 
 he said to them : Have you re- 
 ceived the Hol}^ Ghost since ye 
 believed ? But they said to 
 him : We have not so much as 
 heard whether there be a Holy 
 Ghost. And he said : In what 
 then were you baptized ? Who 
 said : In John's baptism. Then 
 
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 CATECHIS3I. 
 
 Paul said : John baptized the 
 people with the baptism of pen- 
 ance, saying : That they should 
 believe in him who was to come 
 after him, that is to sa}^ in 
 Jesus. Having heard these 
 things, they were baptized in 
 the name of the Lord Jesus. 
 And when Paul had imposed 
 his hands on them, the Holy 
 Ghost came upon them, and 
 
 tlie}^ spoke with tongues and 
 prophesied. 
 
 Q. Is it a sin to neglect Con- 
 firmation ? 
 
 (I. Cor. 12.) I give you to 
 understand, that no man, speak- 
 ing by the spirit of God, saith 
 Anathema to Jesus. And no 
 man can say the Lord Jesus, 
 but by the Holy Ghost. 
 
 LESSON SIXTEENTH. 
 
 ON THE GIFTS AND FRUITS OF THE HOLY GHOST. 
 
 Q. "Which are the effects of 
 Confirmation ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 105, No. 7. 
 
 (Ps. 67.) Thou has as- 
 cended on high, thou hast led 
 captivity captive ; thou hast 
 received gifts in men. 
 
 (Judg. 14. A. M. 2867.) 
 Samson went down with his 
 father and mother to Tham- 
 natha. And when they were 
 come to the vineyards of the 
 town, beliold a young lion met 
 him raging and roaring. And 
 the spirit of the Lord came 
 upon Samson, and he tore the 
 lion as he would have torn a 
 kid in pieces, having nothing 
 at all in his hand : and he 
 would not tell this to his father 
 and mother. And he went 
 down and spoke to the woman 
 that had pleased his eyes. And 
 after some days returning to 
 take her, he went aside to see 
 the carcass of the lion, and be- 
 hold there was a swarm of bees 
 
 in the mouth of the lion and a 
 honey-comb. And when he 
 had taken it in his hands, he 
 went on eating : and coming to 
 his father and mother, he gave 
 them of it, and they ate : but 
 he would not tell them, that he 
 had taken the honey from the 
 body of the lion. 
 
 (Judg. 15. A. M. 2868.) 
 The sons of Judas said to him, 
 we are come to bind thee and 
 to deliver thee into the hands 
 of the Philistines. And Sam- 
 son said to them : Swear to me, 
 and promise me, that you will 
 not kill me. They said : We 
 will not kill thee : but we will 
 deliver thee up bound. And 
 they bound him with two new 
 cords, and brought him from 
 the rock Etam. Now when he 
 was come to the place of the 
 Jaw-bone, and the Philistines 
 shouting went to meet him, the 
 Spirit of the Lord came 
 strongly upon him : and as 
 
CATECHIS3L 
 
 87 
 
 the flax is wont to be consumed 
 at the approach of fire, so the 
 bands with which he was bound 
 were broken and loosed. And 
 finding a jaw-bone, even the 
 jaw-bone of an ass which lay 
 there, catching it up, he slew 
 therewith a thousand men. 
 And he said : With the jaw- 
 bone of an ass, with the jaw of 
 the colt of asses I have de- 
 stroyed them, and have slain a 
 thousand men. And when he 
 had ended these words singing, 
 he threw the jaw-bone out of 
 his hand, and called the name of 
 that place Ramathlechi, which 
 is interpreted the lifting up of 
 the jaw-bone. Aud being very 
 thirsty, he cried to the Lord, 
 and said : Thou hast given this 
 very great deliverance and 
 victory into the hand of th}^ 
 servant : and behold I die for 
 thirst, and shall fall into the 
 hands of the uncircumcised. 
 Then the Lord opened a great 
 tooth in the jaw of the ass, and 
 waters issued out of it. And 
 when he had drank them he re- 
 freshed his spirit, and recovered 
 his strength. 
 
 Q. Which are the gifts of the 
 Holy Grhost ? 
 
 (lY. Kings 13. A. M. 3165.) 
 Eliseus said to Joas : Bring a ' 
 bow and arrows. Andwhenhe 
 had brought him a bow, and ar- 
 rows, he said : Take the arrows. 
 And when he had taken them, 
 he said to him : Strike with an 
 arrow upon the ground. And 
 he struck three times and stood 
 still. And the man of God 
 
 was angry with him, and said : 
 If thou hadst smitten five or 
 six or seven times, thou hadst 
 smitten Syria even to utter 
 destruction : but now three 
 times shalt thou smite it. 
 
 (Isa. 11.) The spirit of the 
 Lord shall rest upon him : the 
 spirit of wisdom, and of un- 
 derstanding, the spirit of coun- 
 sel, and of fortitude, the spirit 
 of knowledge, and of godliness. 
 And he shall be filled with the 
 spirit of the fear of the Lord. 
 
 Q. "WTiy do "we receive the 
 gift of Fear of the Lord ? 
 
 (Eccltus. 1.) The fear of the 
 Lord is honour, and glor}", and 
 gladness, and a crown of joy. 
 The fear of the Lord shall de- 
 light the heart, and shall give 
 joy, and gladness, and length 
 of days. With him that feareth 
 the Lord, it shall go well in the 
 latter end, and in the day of his 
 death he shall be blessed. The 
 fear of the Lord driveth out sin : 
 for he that is without fear, can- 
 not be justified : for the wrath 
 of his high spirits is his ruin. 
 
 Q. "Why do ^we receive the 
 gift of Piety ? 
 
 See "L. of C.,'' p. 103. No. 2. 
 
 Q. "Why do "we receive the 
 gift of Knowledge ? 
 
 See *'L. of C," p. 85, No. 14. 
 
 Q. "Why do we receive the 
 gift of Fortitude ? 
 
 (TI. Maccbs. 6. A. M. 3837.) 
 Eleazar one of the chief of the 
 scribes, a man advanced in 
 years, and of a comely counte- 
 
CATECniS3L 
 
 nance, was pressed to open bis 
 mouth to eat swine's flesh. But 
 he, choosing rather a most glo- 
 rious death than a hateful life, 
 went forward voluntarily to the 
 torment. And considering in 
 what manner he was come to it, 
 patiently bearing, he determined 
 not to do any unlawful things 
 for the love of life. But they 
 that stood by, being moved 
 with wicked pity, for the old 
 friendship they had with the 
 man, taking him aside, desired 
 that flesh might be brought, 
 which it was lawful for him to 
 eat, that he might make as if 
 he had eaten, as the king had 
 commanded of the flesh of the 
 sacrifice : that by so doing he 
 misfht be delivered from death : 
 and for the sake of their old 
 friendship with the man they 
 did him this courtes3\ But he 
 began to consider the dignity 
 of his age, and his ancient years, 
 and the inbred honour of his 
 grey head, and his good life and 
 conversation from a child : and 
 he answered without delay, ac- 
 cording to the ordinances of the 
 holy law made by God, saying, 
 that he would rather be sent 
 into the other world. For it 
 doth not become our age, said 
 he, to dissemble : whereby 
 many young persons might 
 think that Eleazar, at the age 
 of fourscore and ten years, was 
 gone over to the life of the 
 heathens : and so they, through 
 my dissimulation, and for a 
 little time of a corruptible life, 
 should be deceived, and hereby 
 I should bring a stain and a 
 
 curse upon my old age. For 
 though, for the present time, I 
 should be delivered from the 
 punishments of men, yet should 
 I not escape the hand of the 
 Almighty neither alive nor 
 dead. Wherefore by departing 
 manfully out of this life, I shall 
 show myself worth^^ of my old 
 age: and I shall leave an ex- 
 ample of fortitude to young 
 men, if with a ready mind and 
 constancy I suffer an honour- 
 able death, for the most vener- 
 able and most holy laws. Thus 
 did this man die, leaving not 
 only to young men, but also to 
 the whole nation, the memory 
 of his death for an example of 
 virtue and fortitude. 
 
 Q. Why do "we receive the 
 gift of Counsel ? 
 
 (Eccltus. 32.) My son, do 
 thou nothing without counsel, 
 and thou shalt not repent when 
 thou hast done. 
 
 Q. "Why do "we receive the 
 gift of Understanding ? 
 
 (Isa. 42.) The Lord shall go 
 forth as a mighty man, as a 
 man of war shall he stir up 
 zeal : he shall shout and cry : 
 I will lead the blind into the 
 way which they know not : 
 and in the paths which they 
 were io:norant of I will make 
 them walk : I will make dark- 
 ness light before them, and 
 crooked things straight : these 
 things have I done to them, and 
 have not forsaken them. 
 
 Q. "Why do vre receive the 
 gift of T?Visdom? 
 
 (III. Kings 3. A. M. 2991.) 
 
CATECHISM, 
 
 89 
 
 Then there came two women 
 to the king, and stood before 
 him : and one of them said : I 
 beseech thee, my lord, I and 
 this woman dwelt in one house, 
 and I was delivered of a child 
 with her in the chamber. And 
 the third day, after that I was 
 delivered, she also was deliv- 
 ered, and we were together, and 
 no other person with us in the 
 bouse, only we two. And this 
 woman's child died in the night : 
 for in her sleep she overlaid 
 him. And rising in the dead 
 time of the night, she took my 
 child from my side, while I thy 
 handmaid was asleep, and laid 
 it in her bosom : and laid her 
 dead child in my bosom. And 
 when I rose in the morning to 
 give my child food, behold it 
 was dead : but considering him 
 more diligently when it was 
 clear day, I found that it was 
 not mine which I bore. And 
 the other woman answered : It 
 is not so as thou say est, but thy 
 child is dead and mine is alive. 
 On the contrary she said; 
 Thou liest : for my child liveth, 
 and thy child is dead. And in 
 this manner they strove before 
 the king. Then said the king : 
 The one saith, My child is 
 alive, and thy child is dead. 
 And the other answereth : Nay, 
 but thy child is dead, and mine 
 liveth. The king therefore 
 said: Bring me a sword. And 
 when they had brought a sword 
 before the king, divide, said he, 
 the living child in two, and give 
 half to the one, and half to the 
 other. But the woman whose 
 
 child was alive, said to the king 
 (for her pity was moved upon 
 her child) 1 beseech thee, my 
 lord, give her the child alive, 
 and do not kill it. But the 
 other said : Let it be neither 
 mine nor thine, but divide it. 
 The king answered, and said : 
 Give the living child to this 
 woman, and let it not be killed, 
 for she is the mother thereof. 
 
 Q. Which are the Beati- 
 tudes ? 
 
 See'^L. of C,"p.31, No. 7. 
 
 (I. Tim. 6.) Charge the rich 
 of this world not to be high- 
 minded, nor to trust in the un- 
 certainty of riches, but in the 
 living God, (who giveth us 
 abundantly all things to enjoy,) 
 to do good, to be rich in good 
 works, to live easily, to com- 
 municate to others, to lay up 
 in store for themselves a good 
 foundation against the time to 
 come, that they may lay hold 
 on the true life. 
 
 (Job 21.) Why then do the 
 wicked live, are they advanced, 
 and strengthened with riches ? 
 Their seed continueth before 
 them, a multitude of kinsmen, 
 and of children's children in 
 their sight. Their houses are 
 secure and peaceable, and the 
 rod of God is not upon them. 
 Their cattle have conceived, 
 and failed not : their cow has 
 calved, and is not deprived of 
 her fruit. Their little ones go 
 out like a flock, and their chil- 
 dren dance and play. They take 
 the timbrel, and the harp, and 
 
90 
 
 CATECHISM. 
 
 rejoice at the sound of the 
 organ. They spend their days 
 in wealth, and in a moment 
 they go down to hell. Who 
 have said to God : Depart from 
 us, we desire not the knowledge 
 of thy ways. Who is the Al- 
 mighty, that we sliould serve 
 him? and what doth it profit 
 us if we pray to him ? Yet be- 
 cause their good things are not 
 in their hand, may the counsel 
 of the wicked be far from me. 
 How often shall the lamp of the 
 wicked be put out, and a deluge 
 come upon them, and he shall 
 distribute the sorrows of his 
 wrath ? They shall be as chaff 
 before the face of the wind, and 
 as ashes which the w^hirlwind 
 scattereth. God shall lay up 
 the sorrow of the father for his 
 children : and when he shall re- 
 pay, thdn shall he know. His 
 eyes shall see his own destruc- 
 tion, and he shall drink of the 
 wrath of the Almighty. Be- 
 cause the wicked man is re- 
 served to the day of destruc- 
 tion, and he shall be brought to 
 the day of wrath. 
 
 See '• L. of C," p. 55, No. 6; p. 83, No. 10. 
 See "L. of C.,"p. 106, No. 8. 
 See "L. of C.,"p. 57, No. 11. 
 See "L. of C ," p. S4, No. 18; p. 53, No. 18 ; 
 p. 116, No. 6. 
 See"L. of C.,"p.86, No. 18. 
 See"L. of C," p. 67, No. 32. 
 See " L. of C," p. 68, No. 36. 
 
 (Job 2. A. M. 2520.) Now it 
 came to pass, when on a certain 
 day the sons of God came, and 
 stood before the Lord, and 
 Satan came among them, and 
 stood in his sight, that the 
 Lord said to Satan : Whence 
 
 comest thou ? And he answered 
 and said ; I have gone round 
 about the earth, and walked 
 through it. And the Lord said 
 to Satan : Hast thou consid- 
 ered my servant Job, that 
 there is none like him in the 
 earth, a man simple, and up- 
 right, and fearing God, and 
 avoiding evil, and still keeping 
 his innocence ? But thou hast 
 moved me against him, that I 
 should afflict him without 
 cause. And Satan answered, 
 and said : Skin for skin, and all 
 that a man hath he will give 
 for his life : but put forth thy 
 hand, and touch his bone and 
 his flesh, and then thou shalt 
 see that he will bless thee to 
 thy face. And the Lord said to 
 Satan : Behold he is in thy 
 hand, but yet save his life. So 
 Satan went forth from the pres- 
 ence of the Lord, and struck 
 Job with a very grievous ulcer, 
 from the sole of the foot even 
 to the top of his head : and he 
 took a potsherd and scraped 
 the corrupt matter, sitting on a 
 dunghill. And his wife said to 
 him : Dost thou still continue 
 in thy simplicity ? bless God, 
 and die. And he said to her : 
 Thou hast spoken like one of 
 the foolish women : if we have 
 received good things at the 
 hand of God, why should we 
 not receive evil ? In all these 
 things Job did not sin with his 
 lips. The Lord also was turned 
 at the penance of Job, when he 
 prayed for his friends. And 
 the Lord gave Job twice as 
 much as he had before. And 
 
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 the Lord blessed the latter end 
 of Job more than his begin- 
 
 ning. 
 
 Q. "Which are the t-welve 
 fruits of the Holy Ghost ? 
 
 (Gal. 5.) The fruit of the 
 Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, 
 patience, benignity, goodness, 
 longanimity, mildness, faith, 
 modesty, continency, chastity. 
 
 (Josh. 4. A. M. 2553.) Josue 
 called twelve men, whom he 
 had chosen out of the children 
 of Israel, one out of every tribe, 
 and he said to them : Go be- 
 fore the ark of the Lord your 
 God to the midst of the Jordan, 
 and carry from thence ever}^ 
 man a stone on your shoulders, 
 according to the number of the 
 children of Israel, that it ma}^ 
 be a sign among you : and 
 when your children shall ask 
 
 you to-morrow, saying : What 
 mean these stones ? You shall 
 answer them : The waters of 
 the Jordan ran off before the 
 ark of the covenant of the Lord, 
 w^hen it passed over the same : 
 therefore were these stones set 
 for a monument of the children 
 of Israel for ever. The chil- 
 dren of Israel therefore did as 
 Josue commanded them, carry- 
 ing out of the channel of the 
 Jordan twelve stones, as the 
 Lord had commanded him, ac- 
 cording to the number of the 
 children of Israel, unto the 
 place wherein they camped, and 
 there they set them. And Josue 
 put other tw^elve stones in the 
 midst of the channel of the 
 Jordan, where the priests stood 
 that carried the ark of the cov- 
 enant : and they are there until 
 this present day. 
 
 LESSON SEYENTEENTH. 
 
 ON THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE. 
 
 Q. What is the Sacrament of 
 
 Penance ? 
 See '' L. of C," p. 19, No. 1 ; p. 40, No. 38. 
 
 (lY. Kings 5. A. M. 3115.) 
 Naaman, general of the army 
 of the king of Sj^'ia, was a 
 great man with his master, 
 and honourable : for b}^ him the 
 Lord gave deliverance to Syria : 
 and he was a valiant man and 
 rich, but a leper. Now there 
 had gone out robbers from 
 Syria, and had led away cap- 
 tive out of the land of Israel a 
 
 little maid, and she waited upon 
 Naaman 's wife. And she said 
 to her mistress : I wish my 
 master had been with the 
 prophet, that is in Samaria : he 
 would certainly have healed 
 him of the leprosy which he 
 hath. And Eliseus sent a mes- 
 senger to him, saying : Go, and 
 wash seven times in the Jordan, 
 and thy flesh shall recover 
 health, and thou shalt be clean. 
 Then he went down, and washed 
 in the Jordan seven times: 
 
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 according to the word of the 
 man of God, and his flesh was 
 restored, like the flesh of a little 
 child, and he was made clean. 
 And returning to the man of 
 God with all his train, he came, 
 and stood before him, and said : 
 h\ truth, I know there is no 
 other God in all the earth, but 
 only in Israel : I beseech thee 
 therefore take a blessing of thy 
 servant. But he answered : As 
 the Lord liveth, before whom I 
 stand, I will receive none. And 
 when he pressed him, he still 
 refused. But Giezi the servant 
 of the man of God said : My 
 master hath spared Naaman 
 this Syrian, in not receiving of 
 him that which he brought: as 
 the Lord liveth, I will run after 
 him, and take some thing of 
 him : then he went in, and 
 stood before his master. And 
 Eliseus said: Whence coraest 
 thou, Giezi? He answered: 
 Thy servant went no whither. 
 But he said: Was not my heart 
 present, when the man turned 
 back from his chariot to meet 
 thee? So now thou hast re- 
 ceived money, and received gar- 
 ments, to buy olive-yards, and 
 vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, 
 and men-servants, and maid- 
 servants. But the leprosy of 
 Naaman shall also stick to thee, 
 and to thy seed for ever. And 
 he went out from him a leper 
 as white as snow. 
 
 Q. Hq-w does the Sacrament 
 of Penance remit sin, and re- 
 store to the soul the friend- 
 ship of God ? 
 
 See " L. of C./' p. 26, No. 13. 
 
 (Ezek. 18.) The soul that 
 sinneth, the same shall die : but 
 if the wicked do penance for all 
 his sins which he hath com- 
 mitted, and keep all my com- 
 mandments, and do judgment, 
 and justice, living he shall live, 
 and shall not die. I will not 
 remember all his iniquities that 
 he hath done: in his justice 
 which he hath wrought, he shall 
 live. Is it my will that a sin- 
 ner should die saith the Lord 
 God, and not that he should be 
 converted from his ways, and 
 live ? But if the just man turn 
 himself away from his justice, 
 and do iniquity according to 
 all the abominations which the 
 wicked man useth to work, 
 shall he live? all his justices 
 which he hath done, shall not 
 be remembered : in the prevari- 
 cation, by which he hath pre- 
 varicated, and in his sin, which 
 he hath committed, in them he 
 shall die. 
 
 Q. Ho-w do you know that 
 the priest has the power of 
 absolving from the sins com- 
 mitted after Baptism ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 26, No. U: p. 75, No. 
 14 ; p. 122, No. 8. 
 
 Q. How do the priests of the 
 Church exercise the power 
 of forgiving sins ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 35, No. 24 
 
 (Ezek. 33. A. M. 3417.) The 
 word of the Lord came to me, 
 saying : Son of man, speak to 
 the children of thy people, and 
 say to them : When I bring 
 the sword upon a land, if the 
 people of the land take a man, 
 one of their meanest, and make 
 
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 him a watchman over them. 
 And he see the sword coming 
 upon the land, and sound the 
 trumpet, and tell the people : 
 then he that heareth the sound 
 of the trumpet, whosoever he 
 be, and doth not look to him- 
 self, if the sword come, and cut 
 bim off: his blood shall be upon 
 J his own head. And if the watch- 
 man see the sword coming, and 
 sound not the trumpet : and the 
 people look not to themselves, 
 and the sword come, and cut off 
 a soul from among them : he 
 indeed is taken away in his 
 iniquity, but I will require his 
 blood at the hand of the w^atch- 
 man. So thou, son of man, 
 I have made thee a watchman 
 to the house of Israel: there- 
 fore thou shalt hear the word 
 from my mouth, and shalt tell 
 it them from me. When I say 
 to the wicked : O wicked man, 
 thou shalt surely die : if thou 
 dost not speak to warn the 
 wicked man from his way : that 
 wicked man shall die in his in- 
 iquity, but I will require his 
 blood at thy hand. But if thou 
 tell the wicked man, that he 
 may be converted from his 
 ways, and he be not converted 
 from his way : he shall die in 
 his iniquity : but thou hast de- 
 livered thy soul. Thou there- 
 fore, son of man, say to the 
 house of Israel : As I live, 
 saith the Lord God, I desire 
 not the death of the wicked, but 
 that the wicked turn from his 
 way, and live. Turn ye, turn 
 ye from your evil ways : and 
 why will 3'ou die, O house of 
 
 Israel ? Yea, if I shall say to 
 the just that he shall surely 
 live, and he, trusting in his 
 justice, commit iniquity : all his 
 justices shall be forgotten, and 
 in his iniquity, which he hath 
 committed, in the same shall he 
 die. And if I shall say to the 
 wicked : Thou shalt surely die : 
 and he do penance for his sin, 
 and do judgment and justice, 
 and if that wicked man restore 
 the pledge, and render what he 
 had robbed, and walk in the 
 commandments of life, and do 
 no unjust thing : he shall surely 
 live, and shall not die. None 
 of his sins, which he hath com- 
 mitted, shall be imputed to 
 him: he hath done judgment 
 and justice, he shall surely live. 
 
 Q. What must -sve do to re- 
 ceive the Sacrament of Pen- 
 ance worthily ? 
 
 See *• L. of C," p. 73, No. 9; p. 79, No. 1. 
 
 Q. "What is the examination 
 of conscience ? 
 
 See"L. of C," p. 72, No. 7. 
 
 Q. Ho"w can we make a good 
 examination of conscience ? 
 
 (II. Kings 12. A. M. 2971.) 
 The Lord sent Nathan to 
 David : and when he was come 
 to him, he said to him : There 
 were two men in one city, the 
 one rich, and the other poor. 
 The rich man had exceeding 
 many sheep and oxen. But the 
 poor man had nothing at all 
 but one little ewe-lamb, which 
 he had bought and nourished 
 up, and which had grown up in 
 his house together with his 
 children, eatinsj of his bread, 
 
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 and drinking of his cup, and 
 sleeping in his bosom : and it 
 was unto him as a daughter. 
 And when a certain stranger 
 was come to the rich man, he 
 
 spared to take of his own sheep 
 and oxen, to make a feast for 
 that stranger, who was come to 
 him, but took the poor man's 
 ewe, and dressed it for the man 
 that was come to him. And 
 David's anger being exceed- 
 ingly kindled against that man, 
 he said to Nathan : As the 
 Lord liveth, the man that hath 
 done this is a child of death. 
 He shall restore the ewe four- 
 fold, because he did this thing, 
 and had no pity. And Nathan 
 said to David : Thou art the 
 man. Thus saith the Lord the 
 God of Israel : I anointed thee 
 king over Israel, and I deliv- 
 ered thee from the hand of 
 Saul, and gave thee thy mas- 
 ter's house and thy master's 
 wives into thy bosom, and gave 
 thee the house of Israel and 
 Juda : and if these things be 
 little, I shall add far greater 
 
 things unto thee. Why there- 
 fore hast thou despised the 
 word of the Lord, to do evil in 
 my sight ? Thou hast killed 
 Urias the Hethite with the 
 sword, and hast taken his wife 
 to be thy wife, and hast slain 
 him with the sword of the ciiil- 
 dren of Ammon. Therefore the 
 sword shall never depart from 
 thy house, because thou hast 
 despised me, and hast taken 
 the wife of Urias the Hethite 
 to be thy wife. 
 
 Q. "What should "we do before 
 beginning the examination 
 of conscience? 
 
 (Apoc. 3.) To the angel of 
 the church of Laodicea, write : 
 These things saith the Amen, 
 the faithful and true witness, 
 who is the beginning of the 
 creation of God : I know thy 
 works, that thou art neither 
 cold, nor hot. I would thou 
 wert cold, or hot. But because 
 thou art lukewarm, and neither 
 cold, nor hot, 1 will begin to 
 vomit thee out of my mouth. 
 
 LESSON EIGHTEENTH. 
 
 ON CONTRITION. 
 
 Q. What is contrition, or 
 sorrow for sin ? 
 
 (lY. Kings 20. A. M. 329L) 
 In those days Ezechias was 
 sick unto death : and Isaias the 
 son of Amos the prophet came 
 and said to him : Thus saith 
 the Lord God : Give charge 
 
 concerning thy house, for thou 
 shalt die, and not live. And he 
 turned his face to the wall, and 
 prayed to the Lord, saying : I 
 iDeseech thee, O Lord, remem- 
 ber how I have walked before 
 thee in truth, and with a per- 
 fect heart, and have done that 
 
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 which is pleasing before thee. 
 And Ezechias wept with much 
 weeping. And before Isaias 
 was gone out of the middle of 
 the court, the word of the Lord 
 came to liim, saj^ng : Go back, 
 and tell Ezechias the captain of 
 my people : Thus saith the 
 Lord the God of David thy fa- 
 ther : I have heard thy pra3'er, 
 and I have seen thy tears : and 
 behold I have healed thee, on 
 the third day thou shalt go up 
 to the temple of the Lord. And 
 Ezechias said to Isaias : What 
 shall be the sign that the Lord 
 will heal me, and that I shall 
 go up to the temple of the Lord 
 the third day ? And Isaias said 
 to him : This shall be the sign 
 from the Lord, that the Lord 
 will do the word which he hath 
 spoken : Wilt thou that the 
 shadow go forward ten lines, or 
 that it go back so many de- 
 grees ? And Ezechias said : It 
 is an easy matter for the shad- 
 ow to go forward ten lines : 
 and I do not desire that this be 
 done, but let it return back ten 
 degrees. And Isaias the proph- 
 et called upon the Lord, and 
 he brousjht the shadow ten de- 
 grees backwards b}^ the lines, 
 by which it had already gone 
 down in the dial of Achaz. 
 
 Q. ^W^hat kind of sorrcw 
 should -we have for our 
 sins? 
 
 (IL Cor. 7.) Although I 
 made 3^ou sorrowful by my 
 epistle, I do not repent ; and if 
 I did repent, seeing that the 
 same epistle (although but for 
 
 a time) did make you sorrow- 
 ful ; now I am glad : not be- 
 cause you were made sorrow- 
 ful ; but because you were 
 made sorrowful unto penance. 
 For you were made sorrowful 
 according to God, that you 
 might suffer damage by us in 
 nothing. For the sorrow that 
 is according to God worketh 
 penance, steadfast unto salva- 
 tion : but the sorrow of the 
 world worketh death. For be- 
 hold this self-same thing, that 
 you were made sorrowful ac- 
 cording to God, how great care- 
 fulness it worketh in you ; yea 
 defence, yea indignation, yea 
 fear, yea desire, yea zeal, yea 
 revenge ; in all things 3'ou have 
 shewed yourselves to be unde- 
 filed in the matter. 
 
 Q. What do you mean by- 
 saying that our sorroTV 
 should be interior ? 
 
 (Deut. 30.) Now when all 
 these things shall be come up- 
 on thee, the blessing or the 
 curse, which I have set forth 
 before thee, and thou shalt be 
 touched with repentance of thy 
 heart among all the nations, in- 
 to which the Lord thy God 
 shall have scattered thee, and 
 shalt return to him, and obey 
 his commandments, as I com- 
 mand thee this day, thou and 
 thy children, with ail thy heart, 
 and with all thy soul : the 
 Lord thy God will bring back 
 again thy captivity, and will 
 have mercy on thee, and gather 
 thee again out of all the na- 
 tions, into which he scattered 
 
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 thee before. If thou be driven 
 as far as the poles of heaven, 
 the Lord thy God will fetch 
 thee back from thence, and will 
 take thee to himself, and bring 
 thee into the land which thy 
 fathers possessed, and thou 
 shalt possess it : and blessing 
 thee, he will make thee more 
 numerous than were thy fa- 
 thers. Yet so if thou hear the 
 voice of the Lord th}^ God, and 
 keep his precepts and cere- 
 monies, which are written in 
 this law : and return to the 
 Lord thy God with all thy 
 heart, and with all thy soul. 
 
 Q. "What do you mean by- 
 saying that our sorrow 
 should be supernatural? 
 
 See '• L. of C," p. 83, No. 11 ; p. 108, No. 12. 
 
 Q. What do you mean by 
 saying that our sorrow- 
 should be universal ? 
 
 (Num. 33. A.M. 2553.) The 
 Lord said to Moses : Com- 
 mand the children of Israel, 
 and say to them : When you 
 shall have passed over the 
 Jordan, entering into the land 
 of Chanaan, destroy all the 
 inhabitants of that land : beat 
 down their pillars, and break 
 in pieces their statues, and 
 waste all their high places, 
 cleansing the land, and dwelling 
 in it. For I have given it you 
 for a possession. But if you 
 will not kill the inhabitants of 
 the land: they that remain, 
 shall be unto you as nails in 
 your eyes, and spears in your 
 sides, and they shall be your 
 adversaries in the land of your 
 
 habitation. And whatsoever I 
 had thought to do to them, I 
 will do to you. 
 
 (I. King 15. A. M. 2934.) 
 And Saul smote Amalec from 
 Hevila, until thou comest to 
 Sur, which is over-against 
 Egypt. And he took Agag the 
 king of Amalec alive : but all 
 the common people he slew 
 with the edge of the sword. 
 And Saul and the people spared 
 Agag and the best of the flocks 
 of sheep and of the herds, and 
 the garments and the rams, and 
 all that was beautiful, and 
 would not destroy them : but 
 every thing that was vile and 
 good for nothing, that they de- 
 stroyed. And Samuel said : 
 When thou wast a little one in 
 thy own eyes, wast thou not 
 made the head of the tribes of 
 Israel ? And the Lord anointed 
 thee to be king over Israel. 
 And the Lord sent thee on the 
 way, and said : Go, and kill the 
 sinners of Amalec, and thou 
 shalt fight against them until 
 thou hast utterly destroyed 
 them. Why then didst thou 
 not hearken to the voice of the 
 Lord : but hast turned to the 
 prey, and hast done evil in the 
 eyes of the Lord. And Saul 
 said to Samuel: Yea I have 
 hearkened to the voice of the 
 Lord, and have walked in the 
 way by which the Lord sent 
 me, and have brought Agag the 
 king of Amalec, and Amalec I 
 have slain. But the people 
 took of the spoils sheep and 
 oxen, as the first-fruits of those 
 things that were slain, to offer 
 
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 sacrifice to the Lord their God 
 in Galgal. And Samuel said : 
 Doth the Lord desire holocaust 
 and victims, and not rather 
 that the voice of the Lord 
 should be obeyed ? For obedi- 
 ence is better than sacrifices : 
 and to hearken rather than to 
 offer the fat of rams. Because 
 it is like the sin of witchcraft, 
 to rebel : and like the crime of 
 idolatry, to refuse to obey. 
 Forasmuch therefore as thou 
 hast rejected the word of the 
 Lord, the Lord hath also re- 
 jected thee from being king. 
 
 Q. What do you mean -when 
 you say that our sorrow 
 should be sovereign? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 85, No. 15. 
 
 Q. Why should we be sorry 
 for our sins? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 68, No. 35. 
 
 Q. How many kinds of con- 
 trition are there? 
 
 (Ecc. 2.) Ye that fear the 
 Lord, wait for his mere}" : and 
 go not aside from him, lest ye 
 fall. Ye that fear the Lord, 
 believe him: and your reward 
 shall not be made void. Ye 
 that fear the Lord, hope in him : 
 and mercy shall come to you 
 for your delight. Ye that fear 
 the Lord, love him, and your 
 hearts shall be enlightened. 
 For God is compassionate and 
 merciful, and will forgive sins 
 in the day of tribulation : and 
 he is a protector to all that 
 seek him in truth. They that 
 fear the Lord, will not be in- 
 credulous to his word : arid they 
 that love him will keep his way. 
 7 
 
 They that fear the Lord, will 
 seek after the things that are 
 well pleasing to him : and they 
 that love him, shall be filled 
 with his law. 
 
 (Jer. 17.) Let them be con- 
 founded that persecute me, and 
 let not me be confounded : let 
 them be afraid, and let not me 
 be afraid : bring upon them the 
 da}^ of affliction, and with a 
 double destruction, destroy' 
 them. 
 
 Q. "What is perfect contri- 
 tion? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 36, No. 27. 
 
 Q. What is imperfect con- 
 trition ? 
 
 See "L. of C.,"p. 81, No. 7. 
 
 Q. Is imperfect contrition 
 sufficient for a worthy con- 
 fession ? 
 
 See"L. of C.,"p. 73, No. 9. 
 
 Q. "What do you mean by a 
 firm purpose of sinning no 
 more? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 54, Nos. 3, 4 ; p. 85.No.16. 
 
 (Gen. 19. A. M. 2107.) Tlie 
 sun was risen upon the earth, 
 and Lot entered into Segor. 
 And the Lord rained upon Sod- 
 om and Gomorrha brimstone 
 and fire from the Lord out of 
 heaven. And he destroyed 
 these cities, and all the coun- 
 tr}^ about, all the inhabitants 
 of the cities, and all thin^rs 
 that spring from the earth. 
 And his wife looking behind 
 her, was turned into a statue 
 of salt. 
 
 (Gen. 35.) In the mean time 
 God said to Jacob : Arise, and 
 go up to Bethel, and dwell 
 
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 there, and make there an altar 
 to God, who appeared to thee 
 when thou didst flee from Esau 
 thy brother. And Jacob hav- 
 ing called together all his 
 household, said : Cast away 
 the strange gods that are 
 among you, and be cleansed 
 and change your garments. 
 Arise, and let us go np to 
 Bethel, that we may make there 
 an altar to God : who heard me 
 in the day of my affliction, and 
 accompany me in m}^ journey. 
 So they gave him alltlie strange 
 gods they had, and the ear- 
 rings which were in their ears : 
 and he buried them imder the 
 turpentine-tree, that is behind 
 the city of Sichem. And when 
 they were departed, the terror 
 of God fell upon all the cities 
 round about, and they durst 
 ]iot pursue after them as they 
 went away. 
 
 Q. What do you mean by 
 the near occasions of sin ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 53, No, 19. 
 
 (Judg. 13. A. M. 2849.) 
 Now there was a certain man 
 of Saraa, and of the race of 
 Dan, whose name was Manue, 
 and his wife was barren. And 
 an angel of the Lord appeared 
 to her, and said : Behold thou 
 shalt conceive and bear a son : 
 beware thou drink no wine, nor 
 strong drink, nor eat any un- 
 clean thing : for the child shall 
 be a Nazarite of God from his 
 inftmcy, from his mother's 
 womb until the day of his 
 death, and he shall begin to de- 
 
 liver Israel from the hands of 
 the Philistines. And she bore 
 a son, and called his name 
 Samson. And the child grew, 
 and the Lord blessed him. 
 Then Samson went down to 
 Thamnatha, and seeing there a 
 woman of the daughters of the 
 Philistines, he came up, and told 
 his father and his mother, say- 
 ing : I saw a woman in Tham- 
 natha of the daughters of the 
 Philistines : I beseech you, take 
 her for me to wife. After this 
 he loved a woman, who dwelt 
 in the valley of Sorec, and she 
 was called Dalila. And the 
 princes of the Philistines came 
 to her, and said : Deceive him, 
 and learn of him wherein his 
 great strength lieth, and how 
 we may be able to overcome 
 him, to bind and afflict him : 
 which if thou shalt do, we will 
 give thee every one of us eleven 
 hundred pieces of silver. Then 
 opening the truth of the thing, 
 he said to her : The razor hath 
 never come upon my head, for 
 I am a Nazarite, that is to say, 
 consecrated to God from my 
 mother's womb : If my head 
 be shaven, my strength shall 
 depart from me, and I shall be- 
 come weak, and shall be like 
 other men. But she made him 
 sleep upon her knees, and lay 
 his head in her bosom. And 
 she called a barber, and shaved 
 his seven locks, and began to 
 drive him away, and thrust 
 him from her: for immediately 
 his strength departed from him. 
 And she said : The Philistines 
 are upon thee, Samson. And 
 
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 awakening from sleep, be said 
 in his mind : I will go out as I 
 did before, not knowing that 
 the Lord was departed from 
 him. Then the Philistines 
 
 seized upon him, and forthwith 
 pulled out his eyes, and led him 
 bound in chains to Gaza, and 
 shutting him up in prison made 
 him grind. 
 
 LESSON NINETEENTH. 
 
 ON CONFESSION, 
 
 Q. "WTiat is confession? 
 
 (Num. 5. A. M. 2514.) The 
 Lord spoke to Moses, saying : 
 Say to the children of Israel : 
 "When a man or woman shall 
 have committed any of all the 
 sins that men are wont to com- 
 mit, and by negligence shall 
 have transgressed the com- 
 mandment of the Lord, and of- 
 fended, they shall confess their 
 sin, and restore the principal 
 itself, and the fifth part over 
 and above, to him against whom 
 they have sinned. But if there 
 be no one to receive it, thej^ 
 shall give it to the Lord, and 
 it shall be the priest's. 
 
 Q. What sins are "we bound 
 to confess ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 74, No. 11. 
 
 (L Kings 17. A. M. 2942.) 
 Saul said to David : Thou art 
 not able to withstand this 
 Philistine, nor to fight against 
 him : for thou art hut a boy, but 
 he is a warrior from his youth. 
 And David said : The Lord 
 who delivered me out of the 
 paw of the lion, and out of the 
 paw of the bear, he will deliver 
 me out of the hand of this 
 
 Philistine. And Saul said to 
 David : Go, and the Lord be 
 with thee. And David said to 
 ! the Philistine : Thou comest to 
 I me with a sword, and with a 
 spear, and with a shield : but I 
 come to thee in the name of the 
 Lord of hosts, the God of the 
 armies of Israel, which thou 
 hast defied this day, and the 
 Lord will deliver thee into my 
 hand, and I will slay thee, and 
 take away thy head from thee : 
 and I will give the carcasses of 
 the army of the Philistines this 
 day to the birds of the air, and 
 to the beasts of the earth : that 
 all the earth may know that 
 there is a God in Israel. And 
 all this assembl}^ shall know, 
 that the Lord saveth not with 
 sword and spear : for it is his 
 battle, and he will deliver you 
 into our hands. And when the 
 Philistine arose and was com- 
 ing, and drew nigh to meet 
 David, David made haste, and 
 ran to the fight to meet the 
 Philistine. And he put his 
 hand into his scrip, and took a 
 stone, and cast it with the sling, 
 and fetching it about struck 
 the Philistine in the forehead : 
 
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 and the stone was fixed in bis 
 forehead, and he fell on his face 
 upon the earth. And David 
 prevailed over the Philistine, 
 with a sling and a stone, and he 
 struck, and slew the Philistine. 
 And as David had no sword in 
 his hand, he ran, and stood over 
 the Philistine, and took his 
 sword, and drew it out of the 
 sheath, and slew him, and cut 
 off his head. And the Philis- 
 tines seeing that their cham- 
 pion was dead, fled away. 
 
 Q. "Which are the chief quali- 
 ties of a good Confession ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 68, Nos. 33, 34. 
 
 Q. "When is our Confession 
 humble ? 
 
 See '• L. of C," p. 23, No. 7; p. 71, No. 5. 
 
 Q. "When is our Confession 
 sincere ? 
 
 (Prov. 28.) He that hideth 
 his sins, shall not prosper : but 
 he that shall confess, and for- 
 sake them, shall obtain mercy. 
 
 Q. When is our Confession 
 entire ? 
 
 (Acts 4-5. A. D. 33.) With 
 great power did the apostles 
 give testimony of the resur- 
 rection of Jesus Christ our 
 Lord ; and great grace was in 
 them all. For neither was there 
 any one needy among them. 
 For as many as were owners of 
 lands or houses, sold them, and 
 brought the price of the things 
 they sold, and laid it down be- 
 fore the feet of the apostles. 
 And distribution was made to 
 every one, according as he had 
 need, but a certain man n^jned 
 
 Ananias, with Saphira his wife, 
 sold a piece of land, and by 
 fraud kept back part of the 
 price of the land, his wife be- 
 ing privy thereunto : and bring- 
 ing a certain part of it, laid it 
 at the feet of the apostles. 
 But Peter said : Ananias, why 
 hath satan tempted thy heart, 
 that thou shouldst lie to the 
 Holy Ghost, and by fraud keep 
 part of the price of the land ? 
 Whilst it remained, did it not 
 remain to thee ? and after it was 
 sold, was it not in thy power ? 
 Why hast thou conceived this 
 thing in thy heart ? Thou hast 
 not lied to men, but to God. 
 And Ananias hearing these 
 words, fell down, and gave up 
 the ghost. And there came 
 great fear upon all that heard 
 it. And the young men rising 
 up, removed him, and carrying 
 him out, buried him. And it 
 was about the space of three 
 hours after, when his wife, not 
 knowing what had happened, 
 came in. And Peter said to 
 her: Tell me woman, whether 
 you sold the land for so much ? 
 And she said : Yea, for so 
 much. And Peter said unto 
 her : Why have you agreed to- 
 gether to tempt the Spirit of 
 the Lord ? Behold the feet of 
 them who have buried thy 
 husband are at the door, and 
 the}^ shall carry thee out. Im- 
 mediately she fell down before 
 his feet, and gave up the ghost. 
 And the young men coming in, 
 found her dead : and carried 
 her out, apd buried her by her 
 husband. And there came 
 
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 great fear upon the whole 
 church, and upon all that heard 
 these things. 
 
 Q. "What should we do if we 
 cannot remember the num- 
 ber of our sins ? 
 
 (I. John 1.) This is the 
 declaration which we have 
 heard from him, and declare 
 unto you : That God is Light, 
 and in him there is no dark- 
 ness. If we s^y that we have 
 fellowship with him, and walk 
 in darkness, we lie, aud do not 
 the truth. But, if we walk in 
 the light, as he also is in the 
 light, we have fellowship one 
 with another, and the blood of 
 Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth 
 us from all sin. If we say that 
 we have no sin, we deceive our- 
 selves, aud the truth is not in 
 us. If we confess our sins, he 
 is faithful and just, to forgive 
 us our sins, and to cleanse us 
 from all iniquity. If we say 
 that we have not sinned, we 
 make him a liar, and his word 
 is not in us. 
 
 Q. Is our Confession worthy 
 if, without our fault, we 
 forget to confess a mortal 
 sin? 
 See ''L. of C," p. 115, Cpt. vii., No. 2. 
 
 Q. Is it a grievous offense 
 wilfully to conceal a mortal 
 sin in Confession ? 
 
 See"L. ofC.,"p42, No.43. 
 
 (II. Cor. 6.) Bear not the 
 yoke with unbelievers, For what 
 participation hath justice with 
 injustice ? Or what fellowship 
 hath light with darkness ? And 
 what concord hath Christ with 
 
 Belial? Or what part hath 
 the faithful with the unbeliever ? 
 And what agreement hath the 
 temple of God with idols ? For 
 you are the temple of the living 
 God ; as God saith : / will 
 dwell in them, and walk among 
 them ; and I will he their God, 
 and they shall be my people. 
 Wherefore, Go out from among 
 them, and be ye separate, saith 
 the Lord, and touch not the un- 
 clean thing : and I will receive 
 you ; and I will be a Father to 
 you ; and you shall be my sons 
 and daughters, saith the Lord 
 Almighty. 
 
 (James 2.) Whosoever shall 
 keep the whole law, but offend 
 in one point, is become guilty 
 of all. For he that said, thou 
 shalt not commit adultery, said 
 also, Thou shalt not kill. Now 
 if thou do not commit adultery, 
 but shalt kill, thou art become 
 a transgressor of the law. 
 
 Q. What must he do who has 
 wilfully concealed a mortal 
 sin in Confession ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 92, No. 36. 
 
 Q. "Why does the priest give 
 us a penance after Confes- 
 sion? 
 
 See "L. of C.,"p- 74, No. 10. 
 
 Q. Does not the Sacrament of 
 Penance remit all punish- 
 ment due to sin ? 
 
 (II. Kings 12. A. M. 2970.) 
 David said to Nathan : I have 
 sinned agaiust the Lord. And 
 Nathan said to David: The 
 Lord also hath taken away thy 
 sin : thou shalt not die. Never- 
 theless, because thou hast 
 given occasion to the enemies 
 
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 of the Lord to blaspheme, for 
 this thing, the child that is 
 born to thee, shall surely die. 
 
 Q. "Why does Grod require a 
 temporal punishment as a 
 satisfaction for sin ? 
 
 See " L. of C.,"p. 82, No. 9. 
 
 Q. "Which are the chief means 
 by Tvhich -we satisfy G-od 
 for the temporal punishment 
 due to sin ? 
 
 Bee ''L. of C," p. 33, Nos. 14-16; p. 51, 
 No. 13. 
 
 (Gen. 32. A. M. 2265.) The 
 messengers returned to Jacob, 
 saying : We came to Esau 
 thy brother, and behold he 
 Cometh with speed to meet 
 thee with four hundred men. 
 Then Jacob was greatly afraid ; 
 and in his fear divided the peo- 
 ple that was with him, and the 
 flocks, and the sheep, and the 
 oxen, and the camels, into two 
 companies, saying : if Esau 
 come to one company and de- 
 stroy it, the other company 
 that is left shall escape. And 
 Jacob said ; O God of my 
 father Abraham, and God of my 
 father Isaac, Lord. Deliver 
 me from the hand of mj^ brother 
 Esau, for I am greatly afraid 
 of him : lest perhaps he come, 
 and kill the mother with the 
 children. And when he had slept 
 there that night, he set apart, 
 of the things which he had, 
 presents for his brother Esau, 
 and he sent them by the hands 
 of his servants, every drove by 
 itself, and he said to his serv- 
 ants : Go before me, and let 
 there be a space between drove 
 and drove. And he com- 
 
 manded the first, saying : If 
 thou meet my brother Esau, 
 and he ask thee : Whose art 
 thou ? or whither goest thou ? 
 or whose are these before thee ? 
 Thou shalt answer : Th}^ serv- 
 ant Jacob's : he hath sent 
 them as a present to m}- lord 
 Esau : and he cometh after us. 
 In like manner he commanded 
 the second and the third, and 
 all that followed the droves, 
 saying : Speak ye the same 
 words to Esau, when ye find 
 him. And ye shall add : Thy 
 servant Jacob himself also fol- 
 loweth after us ; for he said : I 
 will appease him with the 
 presents that go before, and 
 afterwards I will see him, per- 
 haps he will be gracious to me. 
 He remained alone : and behold 
 a man wrestled with him till 
 morning. And wiien he saw 
 that he could not overcome 
 him, he touched the sinew of 
 his thigh, and forthwith it 
 shrank. And he said to him : 
 Let me go, for it is break of 
 da3\ He answered : I will not 
 let thee go except thou bless 
 me. And he said : What is 
 thy name ? He answered : Ja- 
 cob. But he said : Thy name 
 shall not be called Jacob, but 
 Israel : for if thou hast been 
 strong against God, how much 
 more shalt thou prevail against 
 men ? Then Esau ran to meet 
 his brother, and embraced him : 
 and clasping him fast about 
 the neck, and kissing him, wept. 
 And Esau said : What are the 
 droves that I met ? He an- 
 swered : That I might find fa- 
 
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 vour before my lord. But be 
 said : I bave plenty, my brotber 
 keep what is tbine for tiijself. 
 And Jacob said : Do not so I 
 beseecb tbee, but if I bave 
 found favour in tliy eyes, re- 
 ceive a little present at my 
 bands : for I bave seen tby 
 face, as if I sbould bave seen 
 tbe countenance of God ; be 
 gracious to me, and take tbe 
 blessing, wbicb I have brougbt 
 tbee, and wbicb God batb given 
 me, wbo givetb all tbings. He 
 took it witb mucb ado at bis 
 brother's earnest pressing bim. 
 
 Q. TTT'hich are the chief spir- 
 itual "works of mercy ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 75, No. 14; p. 82. quest. 
 1 ; p. 91, quest. 2 ; p. 35, No. 24. 
 
 (Job 1. A. M. 2520.) There 
 was a man in tbe land of Hus, 
 whose name was Job. and that 
 man was simple and upright, 
 and fearing God, and avoiding 
 eviL Now on a certain day 
 when the sons of God came to 
 stand before tbe Lord, Satan 
 also was present among them. 
 And the Lord said to bim : 
 Whence comest thou ? And be 
 answered and said : I have gone 
 round about tbe earth, and 
 walked through it. And tbe 
 Lord said to bim : Hast thou 
 considered mv servant Job, 
 that there is none like him in 
 tbe earth, a simple and upright 
 man, and fearing God, and 
 avoiding evil ? And Satan an- 
 swering, said : Doth Job fear 
 God in vain ? Hast not thou 
 made a fence for him, and bis 
 house, and all bis substance 
 round about, blessed the works 
 
 of bis bands, and bis possession 
 batb increased on tbe earth ? 
 But stretch forth thy band a 
 little, and touch all that he 
 hath, and see if be blessetb 
 thee not to thy face. Then the 
 Lord said to Satan : Behold, all 
 that be bath is in th^^ hand ; 
 only put not forth thy hand 
 upon bis person. And Satan 
 went forth from the presence 
 of the Lord. Now upon a cer- 
 tain day when bis sons and 
 daughters were eating and 
 drinking wine in tbe house of 
 their eldest brotber, there came 
 a messenger to Job, and said : 
 The oxen were plowing, and 
 the asses feeding beside them, 
 and the Sabeans rushed in, and 
 took all away , and slew tbe serv- 
 ants witb the sword, and I 
 alone bave escaped to tell thee. 
 And while be w^as yet speak- 
 ing, another came, and said : 
 Tbe fire of God fell from beaven, 
 and striking tbe sbeep and the 
 servants, batb consumed them, 
 and I alone bave escaped to 
 tell tbee. And while he also 
 was 3'et speaking, there came 
 another, and said; Tbe Chal- 
 deans made three troops, and 
 bave fallen upon tbe camels, 
 and taken them, moreover they 
 have slain tbe servants with 
 the sword, and I alone bave es- 
 caped to tell tbee. He was 3'et 
 speaking, and behold another 
 came in, and said; Thy sons 
 and daughters were eating and 
 drinking wine in the bouse of 
 their elder brotber, a violent 
 wind came on a sudden from 
 the side of the desert, and shook 
 
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 the four corners of the bouse, 
 and it fell upon thy children 
 and they are dead, and I alone 
 have escaped to tell thee. Then 
 Job rose up, and rent bis gar- 
 ments, and having shaven his 
 head fell down upon the 
 ground and worshipped, and 
 said : Naked caine I out of 
 my mother's womb, and naked 
 shall I return thither: the 
 Lord gave, and the Lord hath 
 taken away ; as it bath pleased 
 the Lord so it is done : 
 blessed be the name of the 
 Lord. The Lord also was 
 turned at the penance of Job, 
 when he prayed for his friends. 
 And the Lord gave Job twice 
 as much as he had before. And 
 the Lord blessed the latter end 
 of Job more than his beginning. 
 
 See "L. of C," p.76, No. 16. 
 
 (I. Kings 24. A. M. 2946.) 
 There was a cave, into which 
 Saul went, to sleep : now David 
 and his men lay hid in the in- 
 ner part of the cave. And the 
 servants of David said to him : 
 Behold the day, of which the 
 Lord said to thee : I will de- 
 liver thy enemy unto thee, that 
 thou mayest do to him as it 
 shall seem good in thy eyes. 
 Then David arose, and secretly 
 cut off the hem of Saul's robe. 
 After which David's heart 
 struck him, because he had cut 
 off the hem of Saul's robe. And 
 he said to his men : The Lord 
 be merciful unto me, that I may 
 do no such thing to my master 
 the Lord's anointed, as to lay 
 my hand upon him, because he 
 
 is the Lord's anointed. And 
 David stopped his men with 
 his words, and suffered them 
 not to rise against Saul : But 
 Saul rising up out of the cave, 
 went on his way. 
 
 (I. Kings 26. A. M. 2947.) 
 David and Abisai came to the 
 people by night, and found 
 Saul lying and sleeping in the 
 tent, and his spear fixed in the 
 ground at his head : and Ab- 
 ner and the people sleeping 
 round about him. And Abisai 
 said to David : God hath shut 
 up thy enem}^ this day into thy 
 hands : now then I will run 
 him through with my spear 
 even to the earth at once, and 
 there shall be no need of a 
 second time. And David said 
 to Abisai : Kill him not : for 
 who shall put forth his hand 
 against the Lord's anointed, 
 and shall be guiltless ? And 
 David said : As the Lord liveth, 
 unless the Lord shall strike 
 him, or his day shall come to 
 die, or he shall go down to 
 battle and perish : the Lord be 
 merciful unto me, that I extend 
 not my hand upon the Lord's 
 anointed. But now take the 
 spear, which is at his head, and 
 the cup of water, and let us go. 
 
 Q. "Which are the chief cor- 
 poral works of mercy ? 
 
 (Tobias A. M. 3283.) Tobias 
 daily went among all his kin- 
 dred, and comforted them, and 
 distributed to ever}^ one as he 
 was able, out of his goods . 
 he fed the hungry, and gave 
 clothes to the naked, and was 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
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 careful to bury the dead, and 
 they that were slain. Now it 
 happened one day, that being 
 wearied with burying, he came 
 to his house, and cast himself 
 down by the wall and slept, 
 and as he was sleeping he was 
 made blind. Now Anna his 
 wife went daily to weaving 
 work, and she brought home 
 what she could get for their 
 living by the labour of her 
 hands. Then Tobias sighed, 
 and began to pray with tears. 
 Now it happened on the same 
 day, that Sara daughter of 
 Kaguel, in Rages a city of the 
 Medes, received a reproach 
 from one of her father's serv- 
 ant maids, because she had been 
 given to seven husbands, and a 
 devil named Asmodeus had 
 killed them, so when she re- 
 proved the maid for her fault, 
 she answered her, saying : May 
 we never see son, or daughter 
 of thee upon the earth, thou 
 murderer of thy husbands. 
 Wilt thou kill me also, as thou 
 hast already killed seven hus- 
 bands ? At these words she 
 went into an upper chamber of 
 her house : and for three days 
 and three nights did neither 
 eat nor drink : but continu- 
 ing in prayer with tears be- 
 sought God, that he would de- 
 liver her from this reproach. 
 And it came to pass on the 
 third day, the prayers of them 
 both were heard in the sight of 
 the glory of the most high 
 God : and the holy Angel of 
 the Lord, Raphael, was sent to 
 heal them both, whose prayers 
 
 at one time were rehearsed in 
 the sight of the Lord. There- 
 fore when Tobias thought that 
 his prayer was heard that he 
 might die, he called to him 
 Tobias his son, and said to 
 him ; Hear, my son, the words 
 of my mouth, and lay them as 
 a foundation in thy heart, bless 
 God at all times : and desire 
 of him to direct th}^ waj's, and 
 that all thy counsels may abide 
 in him. I tell thee also, my 
 son, that I lent ten talents of 
 silver, while thou wast yet a 
 child, to Gabelus, in Rages a 
 city of the Medes, and I have 
 a note of his hand with me : 
 but go now, and seek thee out 
 some faithful man, to go with 
 thee for his hire : that thou 
 mayst receive it, while I 3^et 
 live. ' Then Tobias going forth, 
 found a beautiful young man, 
 standing girded, and as it were 
 ready to walk. And not know- 
 ing that he was an Angel of 
 God, he saluted him, and said: 
 From whence art thou, good 
 3'oung man ? But he answered : 
 Of the children of Israel. And 
 Tobias said to him : Knowest 
 thou the way that leadeth to 
 the country of the Medes ? 
 And he answered : I know it : 
 and I have often walked 
 through all the ways thereof, 
 and I have abode with Gabelus 
 our brother, who dwelleth at 
 Rages a city of the Medes, 
 which is situate in the mount 
 of Ecbatana. And Tobias said 
 to him : Stay for me, I beseech 
 thee, till I tell these same 
 things to my father. Then 
 
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 Tobias going in told all these 
 things to his father. Upon 
 which his father being in ad- 
 miration, desired that he would 
 come in unto him. And Tobias 
 said to him ; Canst thou con- 
 duct m^^ son to Gabelus at 
 Rages, a city of the Medes ? 
 and when thou shalt return, I 
 will pay thee thy hire. And 
 the Angel said to him : I will 
 conduct him thither, and bring 
 him back to thee. Then all 
 things being ready, that were 
 to be carried in their journey, 
 Tobias bid his father and his 
 mother farewell, and they set 
 out both together. And Tobias 
 went forward, and the dog fol- 
 lowed him, and he lodged the 
 first night by the river of Ti- 
 gris. And he went out to wash 
 his feet, and behold a monstrous 
 fish came up to devour him. 
 And Tobias being afraid of 
 him, cried out with a loud 
 voice, saying : Sir, he cometh 
 upon me. And the Angel said 
 to him : Take him by the gill, 
 and draw him to thee. And 
 when he had done so, he drew 
 him out upon the land, and he 
 began to pant before his feet. 
 Then the Angel said to him : 
 Take out the entrails of this 
 fish, and lay up his heart, and 
 his gall, and his liver for thee : 
 for these are necessary for use- 
 ful medicines. Then Tobias 
 asked the Ansfel, and said to 
 him : I beseech thee, brother 
 Azarias, tell me what remedies 
 are these things good for which 
 thou hast bid me keep of the 
 fish ? And the Angel, answer- 
 
 ing, said to him : If thou put a 
 little piece of its heart upon 
 coals, the smoke thereof driveth 
 away all kinds of devils, either 
 from man or from woman, so 
 that they come no more to 
 them. And the gall is good 
 for anointing the eyes, in which 
 there is a white speck, and they 
 shall be cured. And Tobias 
 said to him : Where wilt thou 
 that we lodge? And the An- 
 gel answering, said : Here is 
 one whose name is Raguel, a 
 near kinsman of thy tribe, and 
 he hath a daughter named Sara, 
 but he hath no son nor any 
 other daughter beside her. All 
 his substance is due to thee, 
 and thou must take her to wife. 
 Then Tobias answered, and 
 said : I hear that she hath been 
 given to seven husbands, and 
 they all died : moreover I have 
 heard, that a devil killed them. 
 Then the Angel Raphael said 
 to him : Hear me, and I will 
 shew thee who they are, over 
 whom the devil can prevail. 
 For they who in such manner 
 receive matrimon}- , as to shut 
 out God from themselves, and 
 from their mind, and to give 
 themselves to their lust, over 
 them the devil hath power. 
 But thou when thou shalt take 
 her, go into the chamber, and 
 for three days give thyself to 
 nothing else but to prayers 
 with her. And on that night 
 lay the liver of the fish on the 
 fire, and the devil shall be 
 driven awsiy. And they went 
 into Raguel, and Raguel re- 
 ceived them with joy. And 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 107 
 
 Raguel said to them : Do you 
 know Tobias my43rother ? And 
 they said : We know him. And 
 when 'he was speaking many 
 good things of him, the Angel 
 said to Rasruel : Tobias con- 
 cerning whom thou inquirest is 
 this young man's father. And 
 Raguel went to him, and kissed 
 him with tears, and Anna his 
 wife, and Sara their daughter 
 wept. And when he desired 
 them to sit down to dinner, 
 Tobias said : I will not eat nor 
 drinli here this day, unless thou 
 first grant me my petition, and 
 promise to give me Sara thy 
 daughter. Now when Raguel 
 heard this he was afraid, know- 
 ing what had happened to those 
 seven husbands. The Angel said 
 to him : Be not afraid to give 
 her to this man, for to him who 
 feareth God is thy daughter 
 due to be his wife : therefore 
 another could not have her. 
 Then Raguel said : I doubt not 
 but God hath regarded my \ 
 prayers and tears in his sight. 
 And taking the right hand of 
 his daughter, he gave it into 
 the riorht hand of Tobias, say- 
 ing : The God of Abraham, and 
 the God of Isaac, and the God 
 of Jacob be with you, and may 
 he join you together, and fulfil 
 his blessing in you. And To- 
 bias remembering the AngePs 
 word, took out of his bag part 
 of the liver and laid it upon 
 burning coals. Then the An- 
 gel Raphael took the devil, and 
 bound him in the desert of 
 upper Egypt. Then Raphael 
 took four of RaguePs servants, 
 
 and two camels, and went to 
 Rages the city of the Medes : 
 and finding Gabelus, gave him 
 his note of hand, and received 
 of him all the money. And he 
 told him concerning Tobias the 
 son of Tobias, all that had 
 been done : and made him come 
 with him to the wedding. But 
 as Tobias made longer stay 
 upon occasion of the marriage, 
 Tobias his father was solicitous, 
 saying : Why thinkest thou 
 doth my son tarry, or why is 
 he detained there? Is Gabelus 
 dead thinkest thou, and no man 
 will pay him the money. And 
 he began to be exceeding sad, 
 both he and Anna his wife with 
 him : and they began both to 
 weep together : because their 
 son did not ret^urn to them on 
 the day appointed. But Raguel 
 said to his son-in-law : Stay 
 here, and I will send a mes- 
 senger to Tobias thy father, 
 that thou art in health. And 
 Tobias said to him ; I know 
 that my father and mother 
 now count the days, and tlieir 
 spirit is grievously afflicted 
 within them. And when Ra- 
 guel had pressed Tobias with 
 many words, and he by no 
 means would hearken to him, 
 he delivered Sara unto him, 
 admonishing her to honour her 
 father and mother-in-law, to 
 love her husband, to take care 
 of the family, to govern the 
 house, and to behave herself 
 iri'eprehensibly. And ns they 
 were returning Raphnel said 
 to Tobias: As soon as thou 
 shalt come into thy house, 
 
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 forthwith adore the Lord thy 
 God : and giving thanks to him, 
 go to tliy father, and kiss him. 
 And immediately anoint his 
 eyes with this gall of the fish, 
 w^iich thou carriest with thee. 
 Then the dog, which had been 
 with them in the wa}', ran be- 
 fore, and coming as if he had 
 brought the news, shewed his 
 joy ^y his fawning and wag- 
 ging his tail. And his father 
 that was blind, rising up, began 
 to run stumbling with his feet : 
 and giving a servant his hand, 
 went to meet his son. Then 
 Tobias taking of the gall of the 
 fish, anointed his father's eyes. 
 And he stayed about half an 
 hour : and a white skin began 
 to come out of his eyes, like 
 the skin of a^i ^gg- And To- 
 bias took hold of it, and drew 
 it from his eyes, and immedi- 
 ately he recovered his sight. 
 And they glorified God, both he 
 and his wife and all that knew 
 him. Then Tobias called to 
 him his son, and said to him : 
 What can we give to this ho\y 
 man, that is come with thee ? 
 So the father and the son call- 
 ing him, took him aside: and 
 began to desire him that he 
 would vouchsafe to accept of 
 half of all things that they had 
 brought. Then he said to them 
 secretly : Bless ye the God of 
 
 heaven, give glovy to him in 
 the sight of all that live, because 
 he hath shewn his mercy to you. 
 When thou didst pr[f^ with 
 tears, and didst bury the dead, 
 and didst leave thy dinner, and 
 hide the dead by day in thy 
 house, and bury them by night, 
 I offered tliy pra3'er to the 
 Lord. And because tliou wast 
 acceptable to God, it w^as neces- 
 sary that temptation should 
 prove thee. And now the Lord 
 hath sent me to heal thee, and 
 to deliver Sara th}^ son's wife 
 from the devil. For I am the 
 Angel Raphael, one of the seven , 
 w4io stand before the Lord. 
 And when they had heard these 
 things, they were troubled, and 
 being seized with fear they fell 
 upon the ground on their face. 
 And the Angel said to them : 
 Peace be to you, fear not. For 
 when I was wuth 3'ou, I was 
 there hy the will of God : bless 
 ye him, and sing praises to him. 
 I seemed indeed to eat and to 
 drink with you : but I use an 
 invisible meat and drink, which 
 cannot be seen by men. It is 
 time therefore that I return to 
 him, that sent me: but bless 
 ye God, and publish all his 
 wonderful works. And when 
 he had said these things, he 
 was taken from their sight, and 
 they could see him no more. 
 
CATECHISM. 
 LESSON TWENTIETH. 
 
 109 
 
 ON THE MANNER OF MAKING A GOOD CONFESSION. 
 
 Q. What should we do on 
 entering the confessional ? 
 
 (I. Esdras9.A.M. 3538.) At 
 tbe evening sacrifice I rose up 
 from my affliction, and having 
 rent my mantle and my gar- 
 ment, I fell upon my iinees, and 
 spread out my bands to tiie 
 Lord my God, and said : My 
 God I am confounded and 
 ashamed to lift up my face to 
 thee : for our iniquities are 
 multiplied over our heads, and 
 our sins are grown up even unto 
 heaven, from the days of our 
 fathers : and we ourselves also 
 have sinned grievously unto 
 this day, and for our iniquities 
 we and our kings, and our 
 priests have been delivered into 
 the hands of the kings of the 
 lands, and to the sword, and to 
 captivitj' , and to spoil, and to 
 confusion of face, as it is at 
 this day. And now as a lit- 
 tle, and for a moment has our 
 prayer been made before the 
 Lord our God, that our God 
 would enlighten our e^^es, and 
 would give us a little life in our 
 bondage. For we are bondmen, 
 and in our bondage our God 
 hath not forsaken us, but hath 
 extended mercy upon us. (And 
 now, O our God, what shall we 
 say after this?) for we have 
 forsaken thy commandments, 
 which thou hast commanded by 
 the hand of thy servants the 
 prophets, sa3nng : The land 
 which you go to possess, is an 
 
 unclean land, according to the 
 uncleanness of the people, and 
 of other lands, with their abom- 
 inations, who have filled it from 
 mouth to mouth with their 
 filth. And after all that is come 
 upon us, for our most wicked 
 deeds, and our great sin, seeing 
 that thou our God hast saved 
 us from our iniquity, and hast 
 given us a deliverance as at 
 this, day, that we should not 
 turn away, nor break thy com- 
 mandments. Art thou angry 
 with us unto utter destruction, 
 not to leave us a remnant to be 
 saved ? O Lord God of Israel, 
 thou art just: for we remain 
 yet to be saved as at this day. 
 Behold we are before thee in 
 our sin, for there can be no 
 standing before thee in this 
 matter. 
 
 Q. "Which are the first things 
 ^we should tell the priest in 
 Confession ? 
 
 See"L. of C," p. 74, No. 10. 
 
 Q. After telling* the time of 
 our last Confession and 
 Communion -what should 
 -we do ? 
 
 (James 5.) Confess therefore 
 your sins one to another : and 
 pray one for another, that you 
 may be saved. 
 
 Q. "WTiat must "we do "when 
 the confessor asks us ques- 
 tions ? 
 
 (Eccltus. 4.) Be not ashamed 
 to confess thy sins, but submit 
 not thyself to every man for 
 
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 sin. For there is a shame that 
 bringeth sin, and there is a 
 shame that bringeth glory and 
 
 grace. 
 
 Q. What should "we do after 
 telling" our sins? 
 
 (Prov. 13.) Poverty and 
 shame to him that refuseth in- 
 struction : but he that 34eldeth 
 to reproof, shall be glorified. 
 
 Q. Hew should -we end our 
 
 Confession ? 
 
 (Eph. 4.) Put off, accord- 
 ing to former conversation, 
 the old man, who is corrupted 
 according to the desire of 
 error. And be renewed in the 
 spirit of 3^our mind : and put 
 on the new man, who according 
 to God is created injustice and 
 holiness of truth. 
 
 Q. What should we do while 
 the priest is giving us ab- 
 solution ? 
 
 (II. Peter 2.) By whom a 
 man is overcome, of the same 
 also he is the slave. For if, 
 flying from the pollutions of 
 the world, through the knowl- 
 edge of our Lord and Saviour 
 Jesus Christ, they he again en- 
 tangled in them and overcome : 
 their latter state is become nn- 
 to them worse than the former. 
 For it had been better for them 
 not to have known the way of 
 justice, than after they have 
 known it, to turn back from 
 that holy commandment which 
 was delivered to them. For, 
 that of the true proverb has 
 happened to them : The dog is 
 returned to his vomit : and. The 
 sow that was washed, to her 
 wallowing in the mire. 
 
 LESSON TWENTY-SECOND. 
 
 ON THE HOLY EUCHARIST. 
 
 Q. What is the Holy Euchar- 
 ist? 
 
 (Ex. 26. A. M. 2513.) The 
 children of Israel said to 
 Moses : Would to God we had 
 died by the hand of the Lord 
 in the land of Egypt, when we 
 sat over the flesh-pots, and ate 
 bread to the full. Why have 
 you brought us into this desert ? 
 And the Lord spoke to Moses, 
 saying : I have heard the mur- 
 muring of the children of Is- 
 rael : say to them : In the even- 
 
 ing you shall eat flesh, and in 
 the morning you shall have 
 your fill of bread : and you shall 
 know that I am the Lord your 
 God. So it came to pass in the 
 evening, that quails coming up, 
 covered the camp : and in the 
 morning a dew lay round about 
 the camp. And when it had 
 covered the face of the earth, it 
 appeared in the wilderness 
 small, and as it were beaten 
 with a pestle, like unto the hoar- 
 frost on the ground. And 
 
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 when the children of Israel saw 
 it, they said one to another : 
 Manhu ! which signifieth ; 
 What is this 1 for they knew 
 not what it was. And Moses 
 said to them : This is the bread, 
 which the Lord hath given 3^011 
 to eat. This is the word, that 
 the Lord hath commanded : 
 Let every one gather of it as 
 much as is enough to eat : a 
 gomor for every man, according 
 to the number of your souls 
 that dwell in a tent, so shall 
 you take of it. And the chil- 
 dren of Israel did so : and they 
 gathered, one more, another 
 less. And they measured by 
 the measure of a gomor: nei- 
 ther had he more that had gath- 
 ered more : nor did he find less 
 that had provided less : but 
 every one had gathered, accord- 
 ing to what they were able to 
 eat. And the house of Israel 
 called the name thereof Manna : 
 and it was like coriander seed 
 white, and the taste thereof like 
 to flour with honey. And Moses 
 said : This is the word, which 
 the Lord hath commanded : 
 Fill a gomor of it, and let it be 
 kept unto generations to come 
 hereafter, that they may know 
 the bread, wherewith I fedj^ou 
 in the wilderness, when you 
 were brought forth out of the 
 land of Egypt. And Moses 
 said to Aaron : Take a vessel, 
 and put manna into it, as much 
 as a gomor can hold : and la}^ 
 it up before the Lord to keep 
 unto your generations, as the 
 Lord commanded Moses. And 
 Aaron put it in the tabernacle 
 
 to be kept. And the children 
 of Israel ate manna forty 
 years, till they came to a habit- 
 able land : with this meat were 
 they fed, until they reached the 
 borders of the land of Chanaan. 
 (iy.Kings4.A.M.3110.) A 
 certain man came from Baalsal- 
 isa bringing to the man of 
 God bread of the first fruits, 
 twenty loaves of barley, and 
 new corn in his scrip. And he 
 said : Give to the people, that 
 they may eat. And his servant 
 answered him : How much is 
 this, that I should set it before 
 a hundred men? He said 
 again : Give to the people, that 
 they may eat : for thus saith 
 the Lord : They shall eat, and 
 there shall be left. So he set it 
 before them : and they eat, and 
 there was left according to the 
 word of the Lord. 
 
 Q. "When did Christ institute 
 the Holy Eucharist ? 
 
 See '♦ L. of C," p. 99, Nos. 1, 2. 
 
 (Gen. 14. A. M. 2092.) 
 Which when Abram had heard, 
 to wit, that his brother Lot 
 was taken, he numbered of the 
 servants born in his house, 
 three hundred and eighteen 
 well appointed: and pursued 
 them to Dan. And dividing 
 his company, he rushed upon 
 them in the night : and de- 
 feated them, and pursued them 
 as far as Hoba, which is on the 
 left hand of Damascus. And 
 he brought back all the sub- 
 stance, and Lot his brother, 
 with his substance, the women 
 also and the people. And the 
 
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 king of Sodom went out to 
 meet him, after be returned 
 from the slaughter of Chodor- 
 lahomor, and of the kings that 
 were with him in the vale of 
 Save, which is the king's vale. 
 But Melehisedech the king of 
 Salem, bringing forth bread 
 and wine, for he was the priest 
 of the most high God, blessed 
 him, and said : Blessed be 
 Abram by the most high God, 
 who created heaven and earth. 
 And blessed be the most high 
 God, by whose protection the 
 enemies are in thy hands. And 
 he gave him the tithes of all. 
 
 Q. Who -were present -when 
 our Lord, instituted the 
 Holy Eucharist ? 
 
 See ''L. of C," p. 49, No. 6; p. 99, No. 2. 
 
 Q. How did our Lord insti- 
 tute the Holy Eucharist ? 
 
 See *' L. of C," p. 99, Nos. 1, 2, 3; p. 100, 
 No. 4. 
 
 Q. "What happened when our 
 Lord said, This is my body ; 
 this is my blood ? 
 
 8ee "L. or C," p. 43, No. 48. 
 
 Q. Is Jesus Christ whole and 
 entire both under the form 
 of bread and under the form 
 of wine ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 46, No. 51 ; p. 120, No. 6. 
 
 Q. Did anything remain of 
 the bread and wine after 
 their substance had been 
 changed into the substance 
 of the body and blood of 
 our Lord ? 
 
 (I. Cor. 10.) I speak as to 
 wise men : judge ye 3'ourselves 
 what I say. The chalice of 
 benediction, which we bless, is 
 it not the communion of the 
 
 blood of Christ ? And the 
 bread, which we break, is it not 
 the partaking of the body of 
 the Lord ? For we, being many, 
 are one bread, one body, all 
 that partake of one bread. 
 
 Q. What do you mean by 
 the appearances of bread 
 and w^ine ? 
 
 See ''L. of C.,"p. 18, No. 3. 
 
 Q. What is the change of the 
 bread and wine into the 
 body and blood of our Lord 
 called ? ^ 
 
 (Ex. 4. A. M. 2513.) Moses 
 said to God : Who am I that 
 I should go to Pharao, and 
 should bring forth the children 
 of Israel out of Egypt? And 
 he said to him : I will be with 
 thee : and this thou shalt have 
 for a sign, that I have sent 
 thee: take of the river water, 
 and pour it out upon the dry 
 land, and whatsoever thou 
 drawest out of the river, shall 
 be turned into blood. 
 
 Q. How was the substance 
 of the bread and w^ine 
 changed into the substance 
 of the body and blood of 
 Christ. 
 
 (I. Cor. 11.) I have received 
 of the Lord that which also I 
 delivered unto you, that the 
 Lord Jesus, the same night in 
 whicli he was betrayed, took 
 bread, and giving thanks, broke, 
 and said : Take 3'e, and eat : 
 this is my body, which shall be 
 delivered for you : this do for 
 the commemoration of me. In 
 like manner also the chalice, 
 after he had supped, sajang : 
 
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 This chalice is the new testa- 
 ment in my blood ; this do ye, 
 as often as you shall drink, for 
 the oommemoration of me. 
 For as often as you shall eat 
 this bread, and drmk the chal- 
 ice, you shall shew the death of 
 the Lord, until he come. 
 
 Q. Does this change of bread 
 and -wine into the body and 
 blood of Christ continue to 
 be made in the Church ? 
 
 (Acts 2.) They were perse- 
 vering in the doctrine of the 
 Apostles, and in the communi- 
 cation of the Breaking of Bread. 
 
 (lY. Kings 4. A. M. 3109.) 
 Now a certain woman of the 
 wives of the prophets cried to 
 Eliseus, saying : Thy servant 
 my husband is dead, and thou 
 knowest that thy servant w^as 
 one that feared God, and be- 
 hold the creditor is come to 
 take away my two sons to 
 serve him. And Eliseus said 
 to her: What wilt thou have 
 me do for thee ? Tell me, what 
 hast thou in thy house ? And 
 she answered : I thy handmaid 
 have nothing in my house but 
 a little oil, to anoint me. And 
 be said to her : Go, borrow of 
 all thy neighbours empty ves- 
 sels not a few. And go in, and 
 
 shut thy door, when thou art 
 within, and thy sons : and pour 
 out thereof into all those ves- 
 sels : and when they are full 
 take them away. So the wom- 
 an went, and shut the door 
 upon her, and upon her sons : 
 they brought her the vessels, 
 and she poured in. And when 
 the vessels were full, she said 
 to her son : Bring me yet a 
 vessel. And he answered : I 
 have no more. And the oil 
 stood. And she came, and told 
 the man of God. And he said : 
 Go, sell the oil, and pay thy 
 creditor : and thou and thy 
 sons live of the rest. 
 
 Q. When did Christ give His 
 priests the power to change 
 bread and wine into His 
 body and blood ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 100, No. 4. 
 
 Q. How do the priests exer- 
 cise this power of changing 
 bread and w^ine into the 
 body and blood of Christ ? 
 
 (I. Cor. 11.) This do ye, as 
 often as 3'ou shall drink, for 
 the commemoration of me. 
 For as often as 3'ou shall eat 
 this bread, and drink the chal- 
 ice, you shall shew the death 
 of the Lord, until he come. 
 
 LESSOjS^ TWENTY-THIRD. 
 
 ON THE ENDS FOR WHICH THE HOLY EUCHARIST WAS INSTITUTED. 
 
 Q. "Why did Christ institute 
 the Holy Eucharist ? 
 
 (Num. 14. A. M. 2514.) The 
 
 8 
 
 whole multitude crying wept 
 that night. And all the chil- 
 dren of Israel murmured 
 
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 against Moses and Aaron, say- 
 ing : Would God that we had 
 died in Egypt : and would God 
 we may die in this vast wilder- 
 ness, and that the Lord may 
 not bring us into this land, lest 
 we fall by the sword, and our 
 wives and children be led away 
 captives. Is it not better to 
 return into Egypt ? And they 
 said one to another: Let us ap- 
 point a captain, and let us re- 
 turn into Egypt. And Moses 
 sent twelve to view the land 
 of Chanaan, and said to them : 
 Go you up by the south side. 
 And when you shall come to 
 the mountains, view the land, 
 of what sort it is: and the 
 people that are the inhabitants 
 thereof, whether they be strong 
 or weak: few in number or 
 many : and when they were 
 gone up, they viewed the land 
 from the desert of Sin, unto 
 Rohob as you enter into Emath, 
 And going forward as far as 
 the torrent of the cluster of 
 grapes, they cut off a branch 
 with its cluster of grapes, 
 which two men carried upon a 
 lever. They took also of the 
 pomegranates and of the figs 
 of that place: and came to 
 Moses and Aaron and to all 
 the assembly of the children of 
 Israel to the desert of Pharan, 
 which is in Cades. And speak- 
 ing to them and to all the mul- 
 titude, they shewed them the 
 fruits of the land : and they re- 
 lated and said : We came into 
 the land to which thou sentest 
 us, which in very deed floweth 
 with milk and honey as may 
 
 be known by these fruits : but 
 it hath very strong inhabitants, 
 and the cities are great and 
 walled. We saw there the race 
 of Enac. In the mean time 
 Caleb, to still the murmuring 
 of the people that rose against 
 Moses, said : Let us go up 
 and possess the land, for we 
 shall be able to conquer it. 
 But the others, that had been 
 with him, said: No, we are 
 not able to go up to this peo- 
 ple, because they are stronger 
 than we. And they spoke ill 
 of the land, which they had 
 viewed, before the children of 
 Israel, saying : The land which 
 we have viewed, devoureth its 
 inhabitants: the people, that 
 we beheld, are of a tall stature. 
 There we saw certain monsters 
 of the sons of Enac, of the 
 giant-kind : in comparison of 
 whom, we seemed like locusts. 
 
 (IIL Kings 19. A. M, 3097.) 
 Achab told Jezabel all that 
 Elias had done, and how he had 
 slain all the prophets with the 
 sword. Then Elias was afraid, 
 and rising up he went whither- 
 soever he had a mind : and he 
 came to Bersabee of Juda, and 
 left his servant there, and he 
 went forward, one day's jour- 
 ney into the desert. And when 
 he was there, and sat under a 
 juniper tree, he requested for 
 his soul that he might die, and 
 said : It is enough for me. 
 Lord, take away my soul : for 
 I am no better than my fathers. 
 And he cast himself down, and 
 slept in the shadow of the juni- 
 per tree : and behold an angel 
 
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 of the Lord touched him, and 
 said to him : Arise and eat. 
 He looked, and behold there 
 was at his head a hearth-cake, 
 and a vessel of water : and he 
 eat and drank, and he fell 
 asleep again. And the angel 
 of tiie Lord came again the 
 second time, and touched him, 
 and said to him : Arise, eat : 
 for thou hast yet a great way 
 to go. And he arose, and eat, 
 and drank, and walked in the 
 strength of that food forty 
 days and forty nights, unto the 
 mount of God, Horeb. 
 
 Q. How are we united to 
 Jesus Christ in the Holy 
 Eucharist ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 104. No. 4. 
 
 Q. WTiat is Holy Oomniun- 
 ion? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 46, No. 51. 
 
 Q. What is necessary to 
 make a good Communion ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 93, No. 3. 
 
 (Acts 20. A. D. 68.) On 
 the first day of the week, when 
 we were assembled to break 
 bread, Paul discoursed with 
 them, being to depart on the 
 morrow : and he continued his 
 speech until midnight. And 
 there was a great number of 
 lamps in the upper chamber 
 where we were assembled. And 
 a certain young man named 
 Eutychus, sitting on the win- 
 dow, being oppressed with a 
 deep sleep (as Paul was long 
 preaching,) by occasion of his 
 sleep fell from the third loft 
 down, and was taken up dead. 
 To whom, when Paul had gone 
 
 down, he laid himself upon 
 him, and embracing him, said : 
 Be not troubled, for his soul is 
 in him. Then going up, and 
 breaking bread and tasting, and 
 having talked a long time to 
 them, until daylight, so he de- 
 parted. And they brought the 
 youth alive, and were not a 
 little comforted. 
 
 (I. Cor. 10.) The things 
 which the heathens sacrifice, 
 they sacrifice to devils, and not 
 to God. And I would not that 
 3^ou should be made partakers 
 with devils. You cannot drink 
 the chalice of the Lord, and 
 the chalice of devils : you 
 cannot be partakers of the table 
 of the Lord, and of the table of 
 devils. 
 
 (I. Kings 2L A. M. 2944.) 
 David came to Nobe to Achim- 
 elech the priest : and Achime- 
 lech was astonished at David's 
 coming. And David said to 
 Achimelech the priest: The 
 king hath commanded me a bus- 
 iness, and said : Let no man 
 know the thing for which thou 
 art sent by me, and what manner 
 of commands I have given thee : 
 and I have appointed my serv- 
 ants to such and such a place. 
 Now therefore if thou have 
 anything at hand, though it 
 were but five loaves, give me, 
 or whatsoever thou canst find. 
 And the priest answered David, 
 saying : I have no common 
 bread at hand, but only holy 
 bread, if the .young men be 
 clean. And David answered the 
 priest, and said to him : Truly, 
 we have refrained ourselves 
 
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 CATECHIS3I. 
 
 from yesterday and the da}^ be- 
 fore, when we came out, and 
 the vessels of the young men 
 were holy. Now this way is 
 defiled, but it shall also be sanc- 
 tified this day in the vessels. 
 The priest therefore gave him 
 hallowed bread : for there was 
 no bread there, but only the 
 loaves of proposition, which 
 had been taken away from be- 
 fore the face of the Lord, that 
 hot loaves might be set up. 
 
 Q. Does he who received 
 Communion in mortal sin j 
 receive the body and blood 
 of Christ ? 
 
 See" L. of C," p. 86, No. 17. 
 
 (I. Cor. 11.) Let a man 
 prove himself: and so let him 
 eat of that bread, and drink of 
 the chalice. For he that eateth 
 and drinketh unworthily, eateth 
 and drinketh judgment to him- 
 self, not discerning the body of 
 the Lord. 
 
 Q. Is it enough to be free 
 from mortal sin to receive 
 plentifully the graces of 
 Holy Communion ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 101, No. 5. 
 
 Q. "What is the fast neces- 
 sary for Holy Communion ? 
 
 (Acts 13. A. D. 42.) Now 
 there were in the church which 
 was at Antioch, prophets and 
 doctors, among whom was 
 
 Barnabas, and Simon, who was 
 called Niger, and Lucius of 
 Cyrene, and Manahen, who was 
 the foster-brother of Herod 
 the tetrarch, and Saul. And 
 as they were ministering to the 
 Lord, and fasting, the Holy 
 Ghost said to them : Separate 
 me Saul and Barnabas, for the 
 work whereunto I have taken 
 them. Then they, fasting and 
 praying, and imposing their 
 hands upon them, sent them 
 away. 
 
 Q. Is any one ever allovred to 
 receive Holy Communion 
 vrhen not fasting ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 116, No. 8. 
 
 Q. "When are -we bound to 
 receive Holy Communion ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 67, No. 31. 
 
 Q. Is it well to receive Holy 
 Communion often ? 
 
 See '' L. of C," p. 125, No. 20; p. 127, No. 
 26. 
 
 Q. What should vre do after 
 Holy Communion ? 
 
 See"L of C," p. 101, No. 6. 
 
 (Eph. 5.) Be ye filled with 
 the holy Spirit, speaking to 
 yourselves in psalms, and 
 hymns, and spiritual canticles, 
 singing and making melody in 
 your hearts to the Lord; giv- 
 ing thanks always for all things, 
 in the name of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, to God and the Father. 
 
CATECHISM. 
 LESSON TWENTY-FOURTH. 
 
 ir 
 
 ON THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 
 
 Q. "When and -where are the 
 bread and wine changed 
 into the body and blood of 
 
 Christ ? 
 
 See •' L. of C," p. 100, No. 4; p. 120, No. 6. 
 
 Q. What is the Mass ? 
 
 (Mai. 1.) Beseech 3^e the 
 face of God, that he may have 
 mercy on you, (for by your 
 hand hath this been done,) if by 
 any means he will receive your 
 faces, saith the Lord of hosts. 
 Who is there among you, that 
 will shut the doors, and will 
 kindle the fire on my altar 
 gratis ? I have no pleasure in 
 you, saith the Lord of hosts: 
 and I will not receive a gift of 
 your hand. For from the rising 
 of the sun even to the going 
 down, my name is great among 
 the Gentiles, and in every place 
 there is sacrifice, and there is 
 offered to my name a clean ob- 
 lation : for my name is great 
 among the Gentiles, saith the 
 Lord of hosts. 
 
 Q. "What is a sacrifice ? 
 
 (Gen. 4. A. M. 2.) It came 
 to pass after many days, that 
 Cain offered, of the fruits of the 
 earth, gifts to the Lord. Abel 
 also offered of the firstlings of 
 his flock, and of their fat ; and 
 the Lord had respect to Abel, 
 and to his offerings. 
 
 (Gen. 8.) Noe built an altar 
 unto the Lord : and taking of 
 all cattle and fowls that were 
 clean, offered holocausts upon 
 
 the altar. And the Lord sraelled 
 a sweet savour, and said : I will 
 no more curse the earth for the 
 sake of man : for the imagi- 
 nation and thought of man's 
 heart are prone to evil from his 
 youth : therefore I will no more 
 destroy every living soul as I 
 have done. All the days of the 
 earth, seed time and harvest, 
 cold and heat, summer and 
 winter, night and day, shall not 
 cease. 
 
 Q. Is the Mass the same sac- 
 rifice as that of the Cross ? 
 
 (Ex. 12. A. M. 2513.) The 
 Lord said to Moses and Aaron 
 in the land of Egypt : Speak 
 \^e to the whole assembly of the 
 children of Israel, and say to 
 them : On the tenth day of this 
 month let every man take a 
 lamb by their families and 
 houses. But if the number be 
 less than may sufldce to eat the 
 lamb, he shall take unto him his 
 neighbour that joineth to his 
 house, according to the number 
 of souls which may be enough 
 to eat the lamb. And it shall 
 be a lamb without blemish, a 
 male, of one year : according to 
 which rite also you shall take a 
 kid. And you shall keep it 
 until the fourteenth day of this 
 month : and the whole multi- 
 tude of the children of Israel 
 shall sacrifice it in the evening. 
 And dip a bunch of hyssop in 
 the blood that is at the door. 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 and sprinkle the transom of the 
 door therewith, and both the 
 door cheeks : let none of you 
 go out of the door of his house 
 till morning. For the Lord 
 will pass through striking the 
 Egyptians : and when he shall 
 see the blood on the transom, 
 and on both the posts, he will 
 pass over the door of the house, 
 and not suffer the destroyer to 
 come into your houses and to 
 hurt you. And you shall eat 
 the flesh that night roasted at 
 the fire, and unleavened bread 
 with wild lettuce. Neither shall 
 there remain any thing of it un- 
 til morning. If there be any 
 thing left, you shall burn it 
 with fire. In one house shall 
 it be eaten, neither shall you 
 carry forth of the flesh thereof 
 out of the house, neither shall 
 you break a bone thereof. And 
 thus you shall eat it : you shall 
 gird your reins, and you shall 
 have shoes on your feet, hold- 
 ing staves in your hands, and 
 you shall eat in haste : for it is 
 the Phase (that is the Passage) 
 of the Lord. And I will pass 
 through the land of Egypt that 
 night, and will kill every first- 
 born in the land of Egypt both 
 man and beast : and against all 
 the gods of Egypt I will exe- 
 cute judgments : I am the Lord. 
 And the blood shall be unto 
 you for a sign in the houses 
 where you shall be : and I shall 
 see the blood, and shall pass over 
 you : and the plague shall not 
 be upon you to destroy you, 
 when I shall strike the land of 
 Egypt. And this day shall be 
 
 for a memorial to you : and you 
 shall keep it a feast to the Lord 
 in your generations with an 
 everlasting observance. All 
 the assembly of the children of 
 Israel shall keep it. And if 
 any stranger be willing to dwell 
 among you, and to keep the 
 Phase of the Lord, all his males 
 shall first be circumcised, and 
 then shall he celebrate it ac- 
 cording to the manner : and he 
 shall be as he that is born in 
 the land : but if any man be 
 uncircumcised, he shall not eat 
 thereof. Thou shalt keep this 
 thing as a law for thee and thy 
 children for ever. 
 
 Q. Ho"w is the Mass the same 
 sacrifice as that of the 
 Cross ? 
 
 (L Cor. 11: 26.) As often 
 as you shall eat this Bread, and 
 drink the Chalice, you shall 
 show the death of the Lord, 
 until He come. 
 
 Q. "What -were the ends for 
 which the sacrifice of the 
 Cross was offered ? 
 
 (L Kings 7. A. M. 2888.) 
 The Philistines heard that the 
 children of Israel were gathered 
 together to Masphath, and the 
 lords of the Philistines went up 
 against Israel. And when the 
 children of Israel heard this, 
 they were afraid of the Philis- 
 tines. And they said to Sam- 
 uel : cease not to cry to the 
 Lord our God for us, that he 
 may save us out of the hand of 
 the Philistines. And Samuel 
 took a sucking lamb, and offered 
 it whole for a holocaust to the 
 
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 Lord ; and Samuel cried to the 
 Lord for Israel, and the Lord 
 heard him. And it came to 
 pass, when Samuel was offering 
 the holocaust, the Philistines 
 began the battle against Israel : 
 but the Lord thundered with 
 a great thunder on that day 
 upon the Philistines, and terri- 
 fied them, and they were over- 
 thrown before the face of Israel. 
 
 Q. Is there any difference be- 
 t"ween the sacrifice of the 
 Cross and the sacrifice of 
 the Mass ? 
 
 (Rom. 6.) Now if we be 
 dead with Christ, we belicA^e 
 that we shall live also together 
 with Christ: knowing that 
 Christ rising again from the 
 dead, dieth now no more, death 
 shall no more have dominion 
 over him. For in that he died 
 to sin, he died once; but in 
 that he liveth, he liveth unto 
 God : so you also reckon, that 
 
 you are dead to sin, but alive 
 unto God, in Christ Jesus our 
 Lord. 
 
 Q. How should we assist at 
 Mass? 
 
 (Ex. 19. A. M. 2513.) Mo- 
 ses told the words of the people 
 to the Lord. And he said to 
 him : Go to the people, and 
 sanctify them to-day, and to- 
 morrow, and let them wash 
 their garments. And let them 
 be ready against the third day : 
 for on the third day the Lord 
 will come down in the sight of 
 all the people upon mount 
 Sinai, and thou shalt appoint 
 certain limits to the people 
 round about, and thou shalt say 
 to them : Take heed you go not 
 up into the mount, and that ye 
 touch not the borders thereof: 
 every one that toucheth the 
 mount dying he shall die. 
 
 Q. Which is the best manner 
 of hearing Mass ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 80, No. 4. 
 
 LESSON TWENTY-FIFTH. 
 
 ON EXTREME UNCTION AND HOLY ORDERS. 
 
 Q. "What is the Sacrament of 
 Extreme Unction? 
 
 See ''L. of C," p. 42, No. 46. 
 
 Q. "When should vre receive 
 Extreme Unction? 
 
 (Eccltus. 38.) Honour the 
 physician for the need thou 
 hast of him : for the most High 
 hath created him. For all heal- 
 ing is from God, and he shall 
 receive gifts of the king. The 
 
 skill of the physician shall 
 lift up his head, and in the sight 
 of great men he shall be praised. 
 The most High hath created 
 medicines out of the earth, and 
 a wise man will not abhor them. 
 Was not bitter water made 
 sweet with wood? The vir- 
 tue of these things is come 
 to the knowledge of men, 
 and the most High hath given 
 
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 knowledge to men, that he may | 
 be honoured in his wonders. By 
 these he shall cure and shall al- 
 lay their pains, and of these the 
 apothecary shall make sweet 
 confections, and shall make up 
 ointments of health, and of his 
 works there shall be no end. 
 My son, in thy sickness neglect 
 not thyself, but pray to the 
 Lord, and he shall heal thee. 
 Turn away from sin and order 
 thy hands aright, and cleanse 
 thy heart from all offence. Give 
 a sweet savour, and a memorial 
 of fine flour, and make a fat of- 
 fering, and then give place to 
 the physician. For the Lord 
 created him : and let him not 
 depart from thee, for his works 
 are necessary. For there is a 
 time when thou must fall into 
 their hands : and they shall be- 
 seech the Lord, that he would 
 prosper what they give for ease 
 and remedy, for their conversa- 
 tion. He that sinneth in the 
 sight of his Maker, shall fall 
 into the hands of the physician. 
 My son, shed tears over the 
 dead, and begin to lament as if 
 thou hadst suffered some great 
 harm, and according to judg- 
 ment cover his body, and neg- 
 lect not his burial. And for 
 fear of being ill spoken of weep 
 bitterly for a day, and then 
 comfort thyself in thy sadness. 
 And make mourning for him 
 according to his merit for a day, 
 or two, for fear of detraction. 
 
 Q. Should "we "wait until "we 
 are in extreme danger be- 
 fore ^we receive Extreme 
 Unction ? 
 
 (James 5.) Is any man sick 
 among you ? Let him bring in 
 the priests of the church, and 
 let them pray over him, anoint- 
 ing him with oil in the name of 
 the Lord. And the prayer of 
 faith shall save the sick man : 
 and the Lord shall raise him 
 up : and if he be in sins, they 
 shall be forgiven him. Con- 
 fess therefore your sins one to 
 another : and pray one for an- 
 other, that you may be saved. 
 For the continual prayer of a 
 just man availeth much. Elias 
 was a man passible like unto 
 us : and with prayer he prayed 
 that it might not rain upon the 
 earth, and it rained not for 
 three years and six months. 
 And he prayed again : and the 
 heaven gave rain, and the earth 
 brought forth her fruit. My 
 brethren, if any of you err from 
 the truth, and one convert him : 
 he must know that he who 
 causeth a sinner to be con- 
 verted from the error of his 
 way, shall save his soul from 
 death, and shall cover a multi- 
 tude of sins. 
 
 Q. Which are the effects of 
 the Sacrament of Extreme 
 Unction ? 
 
 (lY. Kings 4. A.M. 3109.) 
 There was a day when Eliseus 
 passed by Sunam : now there 
 was a great woman there, who 
 detained him to eat bread ; and 
 the woman brought forth a son. 
 And her child grew. And on 
 a certain day, when he went out 
 to his father to the reapers, he 
 said to his father : My head 
 
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 acheth, my head aclieth. But 
 he said to his servant : Take 
 him, and carry him to his 
 mother. And when he had 
 taken him, and brought him to 
 his mother, she set him on her 
 knees until noon, and then he 
 died. And she went up and 
 laid him upon the bed of the 
 man of God, and shut the door : 
 and going out, she went for- 
 ward, and came to the man of 
 God to mount Carmel : and 
 when the man of God saw her 
 coming towards, he said to 
 Giezi his servant : Behold that 
 Sunamitess. And when she 
 came to the man of God to the 
 mount, she caught hold on his 
 feet ; and Giezi came to remove 
 her. And the man of God said : 
 Let her alone for her soul is in 
 anguish, and the Lord hath hid 
 it from me, and hath not told 
 me. Then he said to Giezi : 
 Gird up thy loins, and take my 
 staff in thy hand, and go. If 
 any man meet thee, salute him 
 not : and if any man salute thee, 
 answer him not : and lay my 
 staff upon the face of the child. 
 But the mother of the child 
 said : As the Lord liveth, and 
 as thy soul liveth, I will not 
 leave thee. He arose, there- 
 fore, and followed her. But 
 Giezi was gone before them, and 
 laid the staff upon the face of 
 the child, and there was no 
 voice nor sense : and he re- 
 turned to meet him, and told 
 him, saying : The child is not 
 risen. Eliseus therefore went 
 into the house, and behold the 
 child lay dead on his bed. And 
 
 going in he shut the door upon 
 him, and upon the child, and 
 prayed to the Lord. And he 
 went up, and lay upon the 
 child : and put his mouth upon 
 his mouth, and his eyes upon 
 his eyes, and his hands upon 
 his hands : and he bowed him- 
 self upon him, and the child's 
 flesh grew warm. Then he re- 
 turned and walked in the house, 
 once to and fro : and he went 
 up, and lay upon him : and the 
 child gaped seven times, and 
 opened his eyes. And he called 
 Giezi, and said to him : Call 
 this Sunamitess. And she be- 
 ing called, went in to him : and 
 he said : Take up thy son. She 
 came and fell at his feet, and 
 worshipped upon the ground : 
 and took up her son, and went 
 out. 
 
 Q. "What do you mean by the 
 remains of sin ? 
 
 See"L. ofC.,"p. 55, No.7. 
 
 Q. Ho^^ should -we receive 
 the Sacrament of Extreme 
 Unction ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 41, Nos. 39, 40. 
 
 Q. "Who is the minister of the 
 Sacrament of Extreme Unc- 
 tion? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 125, Nos. 21, 22. 
 
 Q. ^What is the Sacrament of 
 Holy Orders ? 
 
 (Acts 6. A. D. 33.) In those 
 days, the number of the dis- 
 ciples increasing, there arose a 
 murmuring of the Greeks 
 against the Hebrews, for that 
 their widows were neglected in 
 the daily ministration. Then 
 
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 the twelve calling together the 
 multitude of the disciples, said : 
 It is not reason that we should 
 leave the word of God, and 
 serve tables. Wherefore, breth- 
 ren, look ye out among you 
 seven men of good reputation, 
 full of the Holy Ghost and wis- 
 dom, whom we may appoint 
 over this business. But we 
 will give ourselves continually 
 to prayer, and to the ministry 
 of the word. And the saying 
 was liked by all the multitude. 
 And they chose Stephen, a 
 man full of faith, and of the 
 Hoi}'' Ghost, and Philip, and 
 Prochorus, and Nicanor, and 
 Timon, and Parmenas, and 
 Nicolas, a proselyte of An- 
 tioch. These they set before 
 the apostles ; and they pra^dng, 
 imposed hands upon them. 
 
 (I. Cor. 14.) Let women 
 keep silence in the churches : 
 for it is not permitted them to 
 speak, but to be subject, as also 
 the law saith. But if they 
 would learn anything, let them 
 ask their husbands at home. 
 For it is a shame for a woman 
 to speak in the church. 
 
 (Ezek. 3. A. M. 3409.) At 
 the end of seven days the word 
 of the Lord came to me, say- 
 ing : Son of man, I have made 
 thee a watchman to the house 
 of Israel : and thou shalt hear 
 the word out of my mouth, and 
 shalt tell it them from me. 
 If, when I say to the wicked. 
 Thou shalt surely die : thou de- 
 clare it not to him, nor speak 
 to him^ that he may be con- 
 verted from his wicked way, 
 
 and live : the same wicked man 
 shall die in his iniquity, but I 
 will require his blood at thy 
 hand. But if thou give warn- 
 ing to the wicked, and he be 
 not converted from his wicked- 
 ness : and from his evil way : he 
 indeed shall die in his iniquity, 
 but thou hast delivered thy 
 soul. Moreover if the just man 
 shall turn away from his justice, 
 and shall commit iniquity ; I 
 will lay a stumbling-block be- 
 fore him, he shall die, because 
 thou hast not given him warn- 
 ing : he shall die in his sin, and 
 his justices which he hath done, 
 shall not be remembered : but I 
 will require his blood at Jhy 
 hand. But if thou warn the 
 just man, that the just may not 
 sin, and he doth not sin : living 
 he shall live, because thou hast 
 warned him, and thou hast de- 
 livered thy soul. And the hand 
 of the Lord was upon me, and 
 he said to me : Rise and go 
 forth into the plain, and there I 
 will speak to thee. And I rose 
 up, and went forth into the 
 plain : and behold the glory of 
 the Lord stood there, like the 
 glory which I saw by the river 
 Chobar: and I fell upon my 
 face. And the spirit entered 
 into me, and set me upon my 
 feet : and he spoke to me, and 
 said to me : Go in ; and shut 
 thyself up in the midst of thy 
 house. And thou, O son of 
 man, behold they shall put 
 bands upon thee, and the}^ shall 
 bind thee with them : and thou 
 shalt not go forth from the 
 midst of them. 
 
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 Q. What is necessary to re- 
 ceive Holy Orders -worthily ? 
 
 See '* L. of C," p. 56, No. 8; p. 104, No. 5 
 
 (Heb. 5.) Every high-priest 
 taken from among men, is or- 
 dained for men in the things 
 that appertain to God, that he 
 may offer up gifts and sacrifices 
 for sins : who can have com- 
 passion on them that are 
 ignorant and that err : because 
 he himself also is compassed 
 with infirmity. And therefore 
 he ought, as for the people, so 
 also for himself, to ofi"er for 
 sins. Neither doth any man 
 take the honor to himself, but 
 he that is called b}^ God, as 
 Aaron was. 
 
 (I. Kings 1. A. M. 2848.) 
 There was a man of Ramathaim- 
 sophim,of mount Ephraira, and 
 his name was Elcana, the son 
 of Jeroham, the son of Eliu, 
 the son of Thohu, the son of 
 Suph, an Ephraimite : and he 
 had two wives, the name of one 
 was Anna, and the name of the 
 other Phenenna. Phenenna 
 had children : but Anna had no 
 children. Now the day came, 
 and Elcana oflered sacrifice, and 
 gave to Phenenna his wife, and 
 to all her sons and daughters, 
 portions: but to Anna he gave 
 one portion with sorrow, be- 
 cause he loved Anna. So Anna 
 arose after she had eaten and 
 drunk in Silo: And Heli the 
 priest sitting upon a stool be- 
 fore the door of the temple of 
 the Lord : as Anna had her 
 heart full of grief, she prayed 
 to the Lord, shedding many 
 tears, and she made a vow, say- 
 
 ing : O Lord of hosts, if thou 
 wilt look down on the affliction 
 of thy servant, and wilt be 
 mindful of me, and not forget 
 thy hand-maid, and wilt give to 
 thy servant a man-child : I will 
 give him to the Lord all the 
 days of his life, and no razor 
 shall come upon his head. And 
 it came to pass, as she multi- 
 plied prayers before the Lord, 
 that Heli observed her mouth. 
 Now Anna spoke in her heart, 
 and only her lips moved, but 
 her voice was not heard at all. 
 Then Heli said to her : Go in 
 peace : and the God of Israel 
 grant thee thy petition, which 
 thou hast asked of him. And 
 it came to pass when the time 
 was come about, Anna bore a 
 son, and called his name 
 Samuel : because she had asked 
 him of the Lord. And after 
 she had weaned him, she carried 
 him with her, with three calves, 
 and three bushels of flour, and 
 a bottle of wine, and she 
 brought him to the house of 
 the Lord in Silo. Now the 
 child was as yet very young : 
 and they immolated a calf, and 
 offered the child to Heli. And 
 Anna said : I beseech thee, my 
 lord, as thy soul liveth, my 
 lord : I am that woman who 
 stood before thee here praying 
 to the Lord. For this child 
 did I pray, and the Lord hath 
 granted me my petition, which 
 I asked of him. Therefore I 
 also have lent him to the Lord 
 all the days of his life, he shall 
 be lent to the Lord. And they 
 adored the Lord there. Now 
 
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 the child Samuel ministered to 
 the Lord before Heli, and the 
 word of the Lord was precious 
 in those days, there was no 
 manifest vision. And it came 
 to pass one day when Heli lay 
 in his place, and his eyes were 
 grown dim, that he could not 
 see : before the lamp of God 
 went out, Samuel slept in the 
 temple of the Lord, where the 
 ark of God was. And the 
 Lord called Samuel. And he 
 answered : Here am I. And he 
 ran to Heli and said : Here am 
 I : for thou didst call me. He 
 said : I did not call : go back 
 and sleep. And he went and 
 slept. And the Lord called 
 Samuel again. And Samuel 
 arose and went to Heli, and 
 said : Here am I : for thou 
 calledest me. He answered : I 
 did not call thee, my son : re- 
 turn and sleep. Now Samuel 
 did not yet know the Lord, 
 neither had the word of the 
 Lord been revealed to him. 
 And the Lord called Samuel 
 again the third time. And he 
 arose up and went to Heli, 
 and said : Here am I : for thou 
 didst call me. Then Heli un- 
 derstood that the Lord called 
 the child, and he said to Sam- 
 uel : Go, and sleep : and if he 
 shall call thee any more, thou 
 shalt say : Speak, Lord, for thy 
 servant heareth. So Samuel 
 went and slept in his place. 
 And the Lord came and stood : 
 and he called, as he had called 
 the other times, Samuel, Sam- 
 uel. And Samuel said : Speak, 
 Lord, for thy servant heareth. 
 
 And the Lord said to Samuel : 
 I will raise me up a faithful 
 priest, who shall do according 
 to my heart, and my soul, and 
 I will build him a faithful 
 house, and he shall walk all 
 days before my anointed. And 
 the child Samuel advanced, and 
 grew on, and pleased both the 
 Lord and men. 
 
 (I. Kings 16. A. M. 2934.) 
 And the Lord said to Samuel : 
 How long wilt thou mourn for 
 Saul, whom I have rejected 
 from reigning over Israel ? fill 
 thy horn with oil, and come, 
 that I may send thee to Isai 
 the Bethlehemite : for I have 
 provided me a king among his 
 sons. Then Samuel did as the 
 Lord had said to him. And he 
 came to Bethlehem, and the 
 ancients of the city wondered, 
 and meeting him, they said : Is 
 thy coming hither peaceable ? 
 And he said : It is peaceable : I 
 am come to offer sacrifice to 
 the Lord, be ye sanctified, and 
 come with me to the sacrifice. 
 And he sanctified Isai and his 
 sons, and called them to the 
 sacrifice. And when they were 
 come in, he saw Eliab, and 
 said; Is the Lord's anointed 
 before him ? And the Lord said 
 to Samuel : Look not on his 
 countenance, nor on the height 
 of his stature : because I have 
 rejected him, nor do I judge ac- 
 cording to the look of man : for 
 man seeth those things that ap- 
 pear, but the Lord beholdeth 
 the heart. Isai therefore 
 brought his seven sons before 
 Samuel : and Samuel said to 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
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 Isai : The Lord hath not chosen 
 any one of these. And Samuel 
 said to Isai : Are here all th}^ 
 sons ? He answered ; There 
 reinaineth yet a young one, 
 who keepeth the sheep. And 
 Samuel said to Isai : Send, and 
 fetch him, for we will not sit 
 down till he come hither. He 
 sent therefore and brought him. 
 Now he was ruddy and beauti- 
 ful to behold, and of a comely 
 face. And the Lord said ; 
 Arise, and anoint him, for this 
 is he. Then Samuel took the 
 horn of oil, and anointed him 
 in the midst of his brethren : 
 and the Spirit of the Lord came 
 upon David from that day for- 
 ward : and Samuel rose up, and 
 went to Ramatha. 
 
 (Num. 17. A. M. 2530.) The 
 Lord spoke to Moses, sa} ing : 
 Speak to the children of Israel, 
 and take of every one of them 
 a rod by their kindreds, of all 
 the princes of the tribes, twelve 
 rods, and write the name of 
 every man upon his rod. And 
 the name of Aaron shall be for 
 the tribe of Levi, and one rod 
 shall contain all their families : 
 and thou shalt lay them up in 
 the tabernacle of the covenant 
 before the testimony, where I 
 will speak to thee. Whomso- 
 ever of these I shall choose, his 
 rod shall blossom : and I will 
 make to cease from me the mnr- 
 murings of the children of 
 Israel, wherewith they murmur 
 against you. And Moses spoke 
 to the children of Israel : and 
 all the princes gave him rods 
 one for every tribe : and there 
 
 were twelve rods besides the 
 rod of Aaron. And when 
 Moses had laid them up before 
 the Lord in the tabernacle of 
 the testimony : he returned on 
 the following day, and found 
 that the rod of Aaron for the 
 house of Levi, was budded : 
 and that the buds swelling it 
 had bloomed blossoms, which 
 spreading the leaves, were 
 formed into almonds. 
 
 (Judg. 6. A. M. 2759.) An 
 angel of the Lord came, and sat 
 under an oak, that w^as in 
 Ephra, and belonged to Joas 
 the father of the family of Ezri. 
 And when Gedeon his son was 
 thrashing and cleansing wheat 
 by the wine-press, to flee from 
 Madian, the angel of the Lord 
 appeared to him, and said : The 
 Lord is with thee, O most val- 
 iant of men. And Gedeon said 
 to him : I beseech thee my lord, 
 if the Lord be with us, why 
 have these evils fallen upon us ? 
 Where are his miracles, w^hich 
 our fathers have told us of, say- 
 ing : The Lord brought us out 
 of Egypt? but now the Lord 
 hath forsaken us, and delivered 
 us into the hands of Madian. 
 And the Lord looked upon 
 him, and said : Go in this thy 
 strength, and thou shalt deliver 
 Israel out of the hand of Ma- 
 dian : know that I have sent 
 thee. He answered and said : 
 I beseech thee, my lord, where- 
 with shall I deliver Israel ? 
 Behold my family is the mean- 
 est in Manassas, and I am the 
 least of my father's house. And 
 the Lord said to him : I will be 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 with thee : and thou shalt cut 
 off Madian as one man. And 
 he said : If I have found grace 
 before thee, give me a sign that 
 it is thou that speakest to me, 
 and depart not hence, till I re- 
 turn to thee, and bring a sacri- 
 fice, and offer it to thee. And 
 he answered : I will wait thy 
 coming. So Gedeon went in, 
 and boiled a kid, and made un- 
 leavened loaves of a measure of 
 flour : and putting the flesh in a 
 basket, and the broth of the 
 flesh into a pot, he carried all 
 under the oak, and presented to 
 him. And the angel of the 
 Lord said to him : Take the 
 flesh and the unleavened loaves, 
 and lay them upon that rock, 
 and pour out the broth there- 
 on. And when he had done so, 
 the angel of the Lord put forth 
 the tip of the rod, which he held 
 in his hand, and touched the 
 flesh and the unleavened loaves : 
 and there rose a fire from 
 the rock, and consumed the 
 flesh and the unleavened loaves : 
 And the angel of the Lord van- 
 ished out of his sight. 
 
 (Judg. 7.) And Gedeon re- 
 turned to the camp of Israel, 
 and said : Arise, for the Lord 
 hath delivered the camp of Ma- 
 dian into our hands. And he 
 divided the three hundred men 
 into three parts, and gave them 
 trumpets in their hands, and 
 empt}^ pitchers, and lamps with- 
 in the pitchers. And he said to 
 them : What 3^ou shall see me 
 do, do you the same : I will go 
 into one part of the camp, and 
 do you as I shall do. When 
 
 the trumpet- shall sound in my 
 hand, do 3^ou also blow the 
 trumpets on every side of the 
 camp. And Gedeon, and the 
 three hundred men that were 
 with him, went into part of the 
 camp, at the beginning of the 
 midnight watch, and the watch- 
 men being alarmed, they began 
 to sound their trumpets, and to 
 clap the pitchers one against 
 another. And when they 
 sounded their trumpets in three 
 places round about the camp, 
 and had broken their pitchers, 
 they held their lamps in their 
 left hands, and with their right 
 hands the trumpets which they 
 blew, and they cried out : The 
 sword of the Lord and of 
 Gedeon : standing every man 
 in his place round about the 
 enemies' camp. So all the camp 
 was troubled, and crying out 
 and howling they fled away. 
 And the three hundred men 
 nevertheless persisted sounding 
 the trumpets. And the Lord 
 sent the sword into all the 
 camp, and they killed one an- 
 other. 
 
 (Jer. 1. A. M. 3375.) The 
 word of the Lord came to me, 
 sa3'ing : Before I formed thee 
 in the bowels of thy mother, I 
 knew thee : and before thou 
 camest forth out of the womb, 
 I sanctified thee, and made thee 
 a prophet unto the nations. 
 And I said: Ah, ah, ah. Lord 
 God : behold, I cannot speak, 
 for I am a child. And the Lord 
 said to me : Say not ; I am a 
 child : for thou shalt go to all 
 that I shall send thee : and 
 
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 whatsoever I shall command 
 thee, thou shalt speak. Be not 
 afraid at their presence : for I 
 am with thee to deliver thee, 
 saith the Lord. And the Lord 
 put forth his hand, and touched 
 my mouth : and the Lord said 
 to me; Behold I have given 
 tny words in thy mouth : lo, I 
 have set thee this day over the 
 nations, and over kingdoms, to 
 root up, and to pull down, and 
 to waste, and to destroy, and 
 to build, and to plant. 
 
 (Jer. 16.) And the word of 
 the Lord came to me, saying : 
 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, 
 neither shalt thou have sons, 
 and daughters in this place. 
 For thus saith the Lord con- 
 cerning the sons and daughters, 
 that are born in this place, and 
 concerning their mothers that 
 bore them : and concerning 
 their fathers, of whom they 
 were born in this land : they 
 shall die by the death of griev- 
 ous illnesses : they shall not be 
 lamented, and they shall not be 
 buried, they shall be as dung 
 upon the face of the earth : and 
 they shall be consumed with 
 the sword, and with famine : 
 and their carcasses shall be 
 meat for the fowls of the air, 
 and for the beasts of the earth. 
 
 Q. How should Christians 
 look upon the priests of the 
 Church ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 31, No. 8. 
 
 (I. Cor. 4.) Let a man so 
 account of us as of the minis- 
 ters of Christ, and the dispens- 
 ers of the mysteries of God. 
 
 Here now it is required among 
 the dispensers, that a man be 
 found faithful. But to me it is 
 a very small thing to be judged 
 by you, or by man's day ; but 
 neither do J judge my own self. 
 For I am not conscious to my- 
 self of any thing, yet am I not 
 hereby justified; but he that 
 judgeth me, is the Lord. There- 
 fore judge not before the time; 
 until the Lord come, who both 
 will bring to liglit the hidden 
 things of darkness, and will 
 make manifest the counsels of 
 the hearts ; and then shall every 
 man have praise from God. 
 
 (1. Tim. 5.) Let the priests 
 that rule well, be esteemed 
 worthy of double honour : es- 
 pecially they who labour in the 
 word and doctrine : For tbe 
 scripture saith : Thou shalt not 
 muzzle the ox that treadeth out 
 the corn: and, The labourer is 
 worthy of his reward. Against 
 a priest receive not an accusa- 
 tion, but under two or three 
 witnesses. 
 
 (Josh. 3:4. A. M. 2553.) 
 Josue rose before daylight, 
 and removed the camp*^: and 
 they departed from Setim, and 
 came to the Jordan, he, and all 
 the children of Israel, and they 
 abode there for three days. Af- 
 ter which, the heralds went 
 through the midst of the camp, 
 and began to proclaim : When 
 you shall see the ark of the 
 covenant of the Lord your God, 
 and the priests of the race of 
 Levi carrying it, rise you up 
 also, and follow them as they 
 go before : And let there be be- 
 
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 tween you and the ark the 
 space of two thousand cubits : 
 that you may see it afar off, 
 and know which way you must 
 go : for you have not gone this 
 way before : and take care you 
 come not near the ark. And 
 when the priests, that carry 
 the ark of the Lord the God of 
 the whole earth, shall set the 
 soles of their feet in the waters 
 of the Jordan, the waters that 
 are beneath shall run down and 
 go off: and those that come 
 from above, shall stand together 
 upon a heap. And as soon as 
 they came into the Jordan, and 
 their feet were dipped in part 
 of the water, (now the Jordan, 
 it being harvest time, had filled 
 the banks of its channel,) the 
 waters that came down from 
 above stood in one place, and 
 swelling up like a mountain, 
 were seen afar off from the city 
 that is called Adom, to the 
 place of Sarthan : but those 
 that were beneath, ran down 
 into the sea of the wilderness 
 (which now is called the Dead 
 sea) until they wholl}^ failed. 
 And the people marched over- 
 against Jericho : and the priests 
 that carried the ark of the cov- 
 enant of the Lord, stood girded 
 upon the dry ground in the 
 midst of the Jordan, and all the 
 people -passed over through the 
 channel that was dried up. Now 
 the priests that carried the ark, 
 stood in the midst of the Jordan 
 till all things were accomplished 
 which the Lord had commanded 
 Josue to speak to the people, 
 and Moses had said to him. 
 
 And the people made haste and 
 passed over. And when they 
 that carried the ark of the cov- 
 enant of the Lord, were come 
 up, and began to tread on the 
 dry ground, the waters returned 
 into the channel, and ran as 
 they were wont before. 
 
 (I. Kings 2. A. M. 2860.) 
 There came a man of God to 
 Heli, and said to him : Thus 
 saith the Lord : Did I not plain- 
 ly appear to thy father^s house, 
 when they were in Egypt in the 
 house of Pharao? And I chose 
 him out of all the tribes of Is- 
 rael to be my priest, to go up 
 to my altar, and burn incense 
 to me, and to w^ear the ephod 
 before me : and I gave to thy 
 father's house of all the sacri- 
 fices of the children of Israel. 
 Why have you kicked away my 
 victims, and my gifts which I 
 commanded to be offered in the 
 temple: and thou hast rather 
 honoured thy sons than me, to 
 eat the first-fruits of every 
 sacrifice of my people Israel? 
 Wherefore thus saith the Lord 
 the God of Israel : I said in- 
 deed that thy house, and the 
 house of thy father should min- 
 ister in my sight, for ever. But 
 now saith the Lord: Far be 
 this from me : but whosoever 
 shall glorify me, him will I 
 glorify: but they that despise 
 me, shall be despised. Behold 
 the days come : and I will cut 
 off thy arm, and the arm of thy 
 father's house, that there shall 
 not be an old man in thy house. 
 And thou shalt see thy rival in 
 the temple, in all the prosperity 
 
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 of Israel, and there shall not be 
 an old man in thy house for 
 ever. 
 
 (lY. Kings 12. A. M. 3147.) 
 Joas said to the priests : All 
 the money of the sanctified 
 things, which is brought into 
 the temple of the Lord by those 
 that pass, which is offered for 
 the price of a soul, and which 
 of their own accord, and of 
 their own free heart tliey bring 
 into the temple of the Lord : 
 let the priests take it according 
 to their order, and repair the 
 house, wheresoever they shall 
 see any thing that wanteth re- 
 pairing. 
 
 (I. Kings 22. A. M. 2944.) 
 The king sent to call for Achim- 
 elech the priest the son of 
 Achitob, and all his father's 
 house, the priests that were 
 in Nobe, and they came all 
 of them to the king. And 
 the king said : dying thou shalt 
 die, Achimelech, thou and all 
 thy father's house. And the 
 king said to the messengers 
 that stood about him: Turn, 
 and kill the priests of the Lord, 
 for their hand is with David, 
 because they knew that he was 
 fled, and they told it not to me. 
 And the king's servants would 
 not put forth their hands 
 against the priests of the Lord. 
 
 Q. "Who can confer the Sac- 
 rament of Holy Orders ? 
 
 (Ex. 29. A. M. 2514.) Thou 
 shalt bring Aaron and his sons 
 to the door of the tabernacle 
 of the testimony. And when 
 thou hast washed the father 
 
 9 
 
 and his sons with water, thou 
 shalt clothe Aaron with his 
 vestments, that is, with the 
 linen garment and the tunick, 
 and the ephod and the rational, 
 which thou shalt gird with the 
 girdle. And thou shalt put the 
 mitre upon his head, and the 
 holy plate upon the mitre, and 
 thou shalt pour the oil of unc- 
 tion upon his head : and by this 
 rite shall he be consecrated. 
 Thou shalt bring his sons also 
 and shalt put on them the linen 
 tunicks, and gird them with a 
 girdle : to wit, Aaron and his 
 children, and thou shalt put 
 mitres upon them : and they 
 shall be priests to me by a per- 
 petual ordinance. After thou 
 shalt have consecrated their 
 hands, thou shalt take also the 
 ram, upon whose head Aaron 
 and his. sons shall lay their 
 hands. And when thou hast 
 sacrificed him, thou shalt take 
 of his blood, and put upon the 
 tip of the right ear of Aaron 
 and of his sons, and upon the 
 thumbs and great toes of their 
 right hand and foot, and thou 
 shalt pour the blood upon the 
 altar round about. And when 
 thou hast taken of the blood, 
 that is upon the altar, and of 
 the oil of unction, thou shalt 
 sprinkle Aaron and his vesture, 
 his sons and their vestments. 
 
 (TIL Kings 19. A.M. 3000.) 
 Elias departing from thence, 
 found Eliseus the son of Sa- 
 phat, ploughing with twelve 
 yoke of oxen : and he was one of 
 them that were ploughing with 
 twelve yoke of oxen : and when 
 
130 
 
 CATECHISM. 
 
 Elias came up to him, he cast 
 bis mantle upon him. And he 
 forthwith left the oxen and ran 
 after Elias, and said : Let me, 
 I pray thee, kiss mj father and 
 my mother, and then I will fol- 
 low thee. And he said to him : 
 Go, and return back : for that 
 which was my part, I have done 
 
 to thee. And returning back 
 from him, he took a yoke of 
 oxen, and killed them, and 
 boiled the flesh with the i)lough 
 of the oxen, and gave to the 
 people, and they eat : and ris- 
 ing up he went away, and fol- 
 lowed Elias, and ministered to 
 him. 
 
 LESSON TWENTY-SIXTH. 
 
 ON MATRIMONY. 
 
 Q. What is the Sacrament 
 of Matrimony ? 
 
 (I. Cor. t.) I say to the 
 unmarried, and to the widows : 
 It is good for them if they so 
 continue, even as I. But if 
 they do not contain themselves, 
 let them marry. For it is bet- 
 ter to marry than to be burnt. 
 But to them that are married, 
 not I but the Lord command- 
 eth, that the wife depart not 
 from her husband. And if she 
 depart, that she remain unmar- 
 ried, or be reconciled to her 
 husband. And let not the hus- 
 band put away his wife. Now 
 concerning virgins, I have no 
 commandment of the Lord ; but 
 I give counsel, as having ob- 
 tained mercy of the Lord, to be 
 faithful. I think therefore that 
 this is good for the present ne- 
 cessity, that it is good for a 
 man so to be. Art thou bound 
 to a wife ? seek not to be loosed. 
 Art thou loosed from a wife ? 
 seek not a wife. But if thou 
 take a wife, thou hast not 
 
 sinned. But if a virgin marry, 
 she hath not sinned : neverthe- 
 less, such shall have tribulation 
 of the flesh. But I would have 
 you to be without solicitude. 
 He that is without a wife, is 
 solicitous for the things that 
 belong to the Lord, how he may 
 please God. But he that is 
 with a wife, is solicitous for the 
 things of the world, how he 
 may please his wife : and he it 
 divided. And the unmarried 
 woman and the virgin thinketh 
 on the things of the Lord, that 
 she may be holy both in body 
 and in spirit. But she that is 
 married thinketh on the things 
 of the world, how she may 
 please her husband. A woman 
 is bound by the law as long as 
 her husband liveth ; but if her 
 husband die, she is at liberty : 
 let her marry to whom she 
 will ; only in the Lord. But 
 more blessed shall she be, if 
 she so remain, according to my 
 counsel ; and I think that I 
 also have the spirit of God. 
 
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 (Gen. 2. A.M.I.) The Lord 
 
 God cast a deep sleep upon 
 Adam : and when he was fast 
 asleep, He took one of his ribs, 
 and filled up flesh for it. — And 
 the Lord God built the rib 
 which He took from Adam into 
 a woman : and brought her to 
 Adam. — And Adam said : This 
 now is bone of my bones, and 
 flesh of my flesh ; she shall be 
 called w^oman, because she was 
 taken out of man. — Wherefore 
 a man shall leave father and 
 mother, and shall cleave to his 
 wife : and they shall be two in 
 one flesh. And God blessed 
 them, saying : Increase and mul- 
 tiply, and fill the earth, and 
 subdue it, and rule over the 
 fishes of the sea, and the fowls 
 of the air, and all living crea- 
 tures that move upon the earth. 
 
 Q. Can a Christian man and 
 •woman be united in la'wful 
 marriage in any other "way 
 than by the Sacrament of 
 Matrimony ? 
 
 (Eph. 5.) Let women be 
 subject to their husbands, as to 
 the Lord : because the husband 
 is the head of the wife, as 
 Christ is the head of the church. 
 He is the saviour of his body. 
 Therefore as the church is sub- 
 ject to Christ, so also let the 
 wives be to their husbands in 
 all things. Husbands, love 
 your wives, as Christ also loved 
 the church, and delivered him- 
 self up for it. That he might 
 sanctify it, cleansing it by the 
 laver of water in the word of 
 life : that he might present it 
 to himself a glorious church, 
 
 not having spot or wrinkle, or 
 any such thing ; but that it 
 should be hol}^, and without 
 blemish. So also ought men 
 to love their wives as their own 
 bodies. He that loveth his 
 wife, loveth himself. For no 
 man ever hated his own flesh ; 
 but nourisheth and cherisheth 
 it, as also Christ doth the 
 church : because we are mem- 
 bers of his body, of his flesh, 
 and of his bones. For this 
 cause shall a man leave his 
 father and mother^ and shall 
 cleave to his wife, and they shall 
 be two in one Jlesh, This is a 
 great sacrament; but I speak 
 in Christ and in the church. 
 Nevertheless let every one of 
 you in particular love his wife 
 as himself: and let the wife 
 fear her husband. 
 
 Q. Can the bond of Christian 
 marriage be dissolved by 
 any human po'wer ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 74, No. 12 ; p. 80, No. 5. 
 
 (Mai. 2. A. M. 3604.) This 
 again have you done, you have 
 covered the altar of the Lord 
 with tears, with weeping, and 
 bellowing, so that I have no 
 more a regard to sacrifice, 
 neither do I accept any atone- 
 ment at your hands. And jo\x 
 have said : For what cause ? 
 Because the Lord hath been 
 witness between thee, and the 
 I wife of thy youth, whom thou 
 hast despised : yet she was thy 
 partner, and the wife of thy 
 covenant. Did not one make 
 her^ and she is the residue of 
 his spirit ? And what doth one 
 
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 seek, but the seed of God? Keep 
 then your spirit, and despise not 
 tlje wife of thy youth. When 
 thou shalt hate her put her 
 away, saith the Lord the God 
 of Israel: but iniquit}^ shall 
 cover his garment, saith the 
 Lord of hosts, keep your spirit, 
 and despise not. 
 
 Q. Which are the effects of 
 the Sacrament of Matri- 
 mony? 
 
 (I. Cor. Y.) To the rest I 
 speak, not the Lord. If an}^ 
 brother have a wife that be- 
 lieveth not, and she consent to 
 dwell with him, let him not put 
 her away. And if any woman 
 have a husband that belie veth 
 not, and he consent to dwell 
 w^ith her, let her not put away 
 her husband. For the unbe- 
 lieving husband is sanctified by 
 the believing wife; and the un- 
 believing wife is sanctified by 
 the believing husband : other- 
 wise your children should be 
 unclean ; but now they are holy. 
 But if the unbeliever depart, let 
 him depart. For a brother or 
 sister is not under servitude 
 in such cases. But God hath 
 called us in peace. For how 
 knowest thou, O wife, whether 
 thou shalt save thy husband ? 
 Or how knowest thou, man, 
 whether thou shalt save thy 
 wife? But as the Lord hath 
 distributed to every one, as 
 God hath called every one, so 
 let him walk : and so in all 
 churches I teach. 
 
 Q. To receive the Sacrament 
 of Matrimony worthily is it 
 
 necessary to be in the state 
 of grace ? 
 
 (I. Peter 3.) In like manner 
 also let wives be subject to 
 their husbands : that if any be- 
 lieve not the word, they may be 
 won without the word, by the 
 conversation of the wives. Con- 
 sidering your chaste conversa- 
 tion with fear. Whose adorn- 
 ing let it not be the outward 
 plaiting of the hair, or the wear- 
 ing of gold, or the putting on 
 of apparel : but the hidden man 
 of the heart in the incorrupti- 
 bility of a quiet and a meek 
 spirit, which is rich in the sight 
 of God. For after this manner 
 heretofore the holy women also, 
 who trusted in God, adorned 
 themselves, being in subjection 
 to their own husbands. As 
 Sara obeyed Abraham, calling 
 him lord : whose daughters you 
 are, doing well, and not fearing 
 any disturbance. Ye husbands, 
 likewise dwelling with them ac- 
 cording to knowledge, giving 
 honour to the female as to the 
 weaker vessel, and as to the co- 
 heirs of the grace of life : that 
 your prayers be not hindered. 
 
 Q. "Who has the right to make 
 laws concerning the Sacra- 
 ment of marriage ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 90, No. 30. 
 
 (Rom. 7.) Know^ you not, 
 brethren, (for I speak to them 
 that know the law,) that the 
 law hath dominion over a man, 
 as long as it liveth ? For the 
 woman that hath an husband, 
 whilst her husband liveth is 
 bound to the law. But if her 
 
CATECHISM, 
 
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 husband be dead, she is loosed 
 from the law of her husband. 
 Therefore, whilst her husband 
 liveth, she shall be called an 
 adulteress, if she be with an- 
 other man : but if her husband 
 be dead, she is delivered from 
 the law of her husband ; so that 
 she is not an adulteress, if she 
 be with another man. There- 
 fore, my brethren, you also are 
 become dead to the law, by the 
 body of Christ; that 3^ou may 
 belong to another, who is risen 
 again from the dead, that we 
 may bring forth fruit to God. 
 
 Q. Does the Church forbid 
 the marriage of Catholics 
 •with persons "who have a 
 different religion or no re- 
 ligion at all ? 
 
 (Gen. 24. A. M. 2148.) Now 
 Abraham was old ; and advanced 
 in age : and the Lord had blessed 
 him in all things. And he said 
 to the elder servant of his house, 
 who was ruler over all he had : 
 Swear by the Lord the God of 
 heaven and earth, that thou take 
 not a wife for my son, of the 
 daughters of the Chanaanites, 
 among whom I dwell : but that 
 thou go to my own country and 
 kindred, and take a wife from 
 thence for my son Isaac. The 
 servant answered : If the woman 
 will not come with me into this 
 land, must I bring thy son back 
 again to the place, from whence 
 thou camest out? And Abra- 
 ham said: Beware thou never 
 bring my son back again thither. 
 The Lord God of heaven, who 
 took me out of my father's 
 
 house, and out of my native 
 country, who spoke to me, and 
 swore to me, saying : To thy 
 seed will I give this land : he 
 wiU send his Angel before thee, 
 and thou shalt take from thence 
 a wife for my son. But if the 
 woman will not follow thee, thou 
 shalt not be bound b}- the oath ; 
 only bring not my son back 
 thither again. The servant 
 therefore swore to him upon 
 this word. And he took ten 
 camels of his master's herd, 
 and departed, carrjang some- 
 thing of all his goods with him, 
 and he set forward and went on 
 to Mesopotamia to the city of 
 Nachor. And when he had 
 made the camels lie down with- 
 out the town near a well of 
 water in the evening, at the 
 time when women are wont to 
 come out to draw water, he 
 said : O Lord the God of my 
 master Abraham, meet me to- 
 day, I beseech thee, and shew 
 kindness to my master Abra- 
 ham. Behold I stand nigh the 
 spring of water, and the daugh- 
 ters of the inhabitants of this 
 city will come out to draw wa- 
 ter. Now, therefore, the maid 
 to whom I shall say : Let down 
 thy pitcher that I may drink : 
 and she shall answer. Drink, 
 and I will give thy camels drink 
 also : let it be the same whom 
 thou hast provided for thy serv- 
 ant Isaac : and by this I shall 
 understand, that thou hast 
 shewn kindness to my master. 
 He had not yet ended these 
 words within himself, and be- 
 hold Rebecca came out, the 
 
134 
 
 CATECHISM. 
 
 daughter of Bathiiel, son of 
 Melcba, wife to Naclior the 
 brother of Abraham, having a 
 pitcher on her shoulder : an ex- 
 ceeding comely maid, and a 
 most beautiful virgin : and she 
 went down to the spring, and 
 filled her pitcher and was com- 
 ing back. And the servant ran 
 to meet her, and said ; Give me 
 a little water to drink of thy 
 pitcher. And she answered : 
 Drink, my lord. And quickly 
 she let down the pitcher upon 
 her arm, and gave him drink. 
 And when he had drunk, she 
 said : I wnll draw water for thy 
 camels also, till they all drink. 
 And pouring out the pitcher in- 
 to the troughs, she ran back to 
 the well to draw water : and 
 having drawn she gave to all 
 the camels. And after that the 
 camels had drunk, the man took 
 out golden ear-rings, weighing 
 two sides : and as many brace- 
 lets of ten sides weight. The 
 man bowed himself down, and 
 adored the Lord, sa3nng : Bless- 
 ed be the Lord God of my mas- 
 ter Abraham, who hath not 
 taken away his mercy and truth 
 from my master, and hath 
 brought me the straight way 
 into the house of my master's 
 brother. Then the maid ran, 
 and told in her mother's house, 
 all that she had heard. And 
 Rebecca had a brother named 
 Laban, who went out in haste 
 to the man, to the well. And 
 when he had seen the ear-rings 
 and bracelets in his sister's 
 hands, and had heard all that 
 she related, saying: Thug ^n4 
 
 thus the man spoke to me : he 
 came to the man who stood by 
 the camels, and near to the 
 spring of water, and said to 
 him : Come in, thou blessed of 
 the Lord : why standest thou 
 without? I have prepared the 
 house, and a place for the 
 camels. And he brought him 
 in into his lodging : and he un- 
 harnessed the camels and gave 
 straw and ha}^ and w^ater to 
 wash his feet, and the feet of 
 the men that were come with 
 him. And bread was set be- 
 fore him. But he said : I will 
 not eat, till I tell my message. 
 He answered him : Speak. And 
 he said : I am the servant of 
 Abraham : and my master made 
 me swear, saying; Thou shalt 
 not take a wife for my son of 
 the Chanaanites, in whose land 
 I dwell : but thou shalt go to 
 my father's house, and shalt 
 take a wife of my own kindred 
 for my son : and the Lord God 
 of my master Abraham hath 
 brought me the straight way to 
 take the daughter of my mas- 
 ter's brother for his son. Where- 
 fore if you do according to 
 mercy and truth with my mas- 
 ter, tell me: but if it please 
 you otherwise, tell me that also, 
 that I may go to the right 
 hand, or to the left. And Laban 
 and Bathuel answered: Behold 
 Rebecca is before thee, take her 
 and go thy way, and let her be 
 the wife of thy master's son, as 
 the Lord hath spoken. Which 
 when Abraham's servant heard, 
 falling down to the ground he 
 ^do^-e^ the Lord. And bring- 
 
CATECHISM, 
 
 135 
 
 ing forth vessels of silver and 
 gold, and garments, he gave 
 them to Rebecca for a present. 
 He offered gifts also to her 
 brothers, and to her mother. 
 And a banquet was made, and 
 they ate and drank together, 
 and lodged there. And in the 
 morning, the servant arose, and 
 said ; Let me depart, that I may 
 go to my master. And they 
 said : Let us call the maid, and 
 ask her will. And they called 
 her, and when she was come, 
 they asked : Wilt thou go with 
 this man ? She said : I will go. 
 So they sent her away, and her 
 nurse, and Abraham's servant, 
 and his company. So Rel)ecca, 
 and her maids being set upon 
 camels, followed the man : w^ho 
 with speed returned to his mas- 
 ter. At the same time Isaac 
 was walking along the way to 
 the w^ell which is called Of the 
 living and the seeing: for he 
 dwelt in the south country. 
 And he was gone forth to med- 
 itate in the field, the day being 
 now well spent : and w^hen he 
 had lifted up his eyes, he saw 
 camels coming afar off. Re- 
 becca also, when she saw Isaac, 
 lighted off the camel, and said 
 to the servant ; Who is that 
 man who cometh towards us 
 along the field? And he said 
 to her : That man is my mas- 
 ter. But she quickly took her 
 cloak, and covered herself. And 
 the servant told Isaac all that 
 he had done. Who brought her 
 into the tent of Sara his mother, 
 and took her to wife: and he 
 loved her so much, that it mod- 
 
 erated the sorrow w^hich was 
 occasioned by his mother's 
 death. 
 
 Q. Why does the Church for- 
 bid the marriage of Catho- 
 lics -with persons who have 
 a different religion or no re- 
 ligion at all ? 
 
 (Gen. 34. A.M. 2273.) When 
 Hemor the father of Sichem was 
 come out to speak to Jacob, he 
 said: The soul of my son Sichem 
 has a longing for j'our daugh- 
 ter : give her him to wife : and 
 let us contract marriages one 
 with another: give us 3'our 
 daughters and take you our 
 daughters, and dwell with us : 
 the land is at ^^our command, 
 till, trade, and possess it. 
 Sichem also said to her father 
 and to her brethren : Let me 
 find favor in 3^our sight : and 
 whatsoever 3'ou shall appoint I 
 will give. Raise the dowr}^ 
 and ask gifts, and I will gladly 
 give what 3'ou shall demand : 
 only give me this damsel to 
 wife. The sons of Jacob an- 
 swered Sichem and his father : 
 We cannot do what 3'ou demand, 
 nor give our sister to one that 
 is uncircumcised, which with 
 us is unlawful and abominable. 
 But in this we ma}^ be allied 
 with .you, if you will be like us, 
 and all the male sex among you 
 be circumcised : then will we 
 mutually give and take .your 
 daughters, and ours: and we 
 will dwell wdth you, and will be 
 one people : but if you will not 
 be circumcised, we will take 
 our daughter and depart. 
 
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 CATECHISM, 
 
 Q, "Why do many marriages 
 prove unhappy ? 
 
 (Tob. 6. A. M. 3299.) Then 
 Tobias answered, and said : I 
 hear that she hath been given 
 to seven husbands, and they all 
 died : moreover I have heard 
 that a devil killed them. — Now 
 I am afraid, lest the same thing 
 should happen to me also : and 
 whereas I am the only child of 
 my parents, I should bring 
 down their old age with sorrow 
 to hell. — Then the Angel Ra- 
 phael said to him : Hear me, 
 and I will show thee who they 
 are, over whom the devil can 
 prevail, — For they who in such 
 manner receive matrimony, as 
 to shut out God from themselves, 
 and from their mind, and to 
 give themselves to their lust, 
 over them the devil hath power. 
 But thou when thou shall take 
 her, go into the chamber, and 
 for three days keep thyself con- 
 tinent from her, and give thy- 
 self to nothing else but to prayers 
 with her. — And on that night 
 lay the liver of the fish on the 
 fire, and the devil shall be 
 driven away. — But the second 
 night thou shall be admitted into 
 the society of the holy Patri- 
 archs. — And the third night 
 thou shall obtain a blessing that 
 sound children may be born of 
 you, 
 
 Q. HoTV should Christians 
 prepare for a holy and hap- 
 py marriage ? 
 
 (Gen. 29. A. M. 2245.) Jacob 
 went on in his journey, and 
 came into the east country. 
 
 And he saw a well in the field, 
 and three flocks of sheep lying 
 by it : for the beasts were 
 watered out of it, and the 
 mouth thereof was closed with 
 a great stone. And behold 
 Rachel came with her father's 
 sheep : for she fed the flock. 
 And when Jacob saw her, and 
 knew her to be his cousin-ger- 
 man, and that they were the 
 sheep of Laban, his uncle : he 
 removed the stone wherewith 
 the well was closed. And hav- 
 ing watered the flock, he kissed 
 her: and lifting up his voice, 
 wept. And he told her that he 
 was her father's brother, and 
 the son of Rebecca : but she 
 went in haste and told her 
 father. Who, w^hen he heard 
 that Jacob his sister's son was 
 come, ran forth to meet him : 
 and embracing him, and heart- 
 ily kissing him brought him 
 into his house. And when he 
 had heard the causes of his 
 journe3% he answered : Thou 
 art my l3one and my flesh. And 
 after the days of one month 
 were expired, he said to him: 
 Because thou art my brother, 
 shalt thou serve me without 
 wages? Tell me wiiat wages 
 thou wilt have. Now he had 
 two daughters, the name of the 
 elder was Lia : and the younger 
 was called Rachel. But Lia 
 was blear-eyed : Rachel w^as 
 well favored, and of a beautiful 
 countenance. And Jacob be- 
 ing in love with her, said : I 
 will serve thee seven years for 
 Rachel th}^ younger daugliter. 
 Laban answered : It is better 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 137 
 
 that I give her to thee than to 
 another man ; stay with me. 
 So Jacob served seven years 
 for Rachel: and they seemed 
 hut a few days, because of the 
 greatness of his love. 
 
 (Judg. 21. A. M. 2890.) The 
 Ancients commanded the chil- 
 dren of Benjamin, and said : 
 Go, and lie hid in the vine- 
 yards, and when you shall see 
 the daughters of Silo come out, 
 as the custom is, to dance, come 
 ye on a sudden out of the vine- 
 3^ards,and catch you every man 
 his wife among them, and go 
 into the land of Benjamin. And 
 when their fathers and their 
 
 brethren shall come, and shall 
 begin to complain against you, 
 and to chide, we will say to 
 them : Have pity on them : for 
 tbey took tbem not away as by 
 the right of war or conquest, 
 but when they asked to have 
 them, you gave them not, and 
 the fault was committed on 
 your part. And the children 
 of Benjamin did, as they had 
 been commanded : and accord- 
 ing to their number, they car- 
 ried off for themselves every 
 man his wife of them that were 
 dancing : and they went into 
 their possession and built up 
 their cities, and dwelt in them. 
 
 LESSON TWENTY-SEVENTH. 
 
 ON THE SACRAMENTALS. 
 
 Q. What is a sacramental ? 
 
 (Num. 21. A. M. 2553.) The 
 people came to Moses, and said : 
 We have sinned, because we 
 have spoken against the Lord 
 and thee: pray that he may 
 take away these serpents from 
 us. And Moses prayed for the 
 people. And the Lord said to 
 him : Make a brazen serpent, 
 and set it up for a sign : who- 
 soever being struck shall look 
 on it, shall live. Moses there- 
 fore made a brazen serpent, and 
 set it up for a sign : which 
 when they that were bitten 
 looked upon, they were healed. 
 
 Q. "What is the difference be- 
 tween the Sacraments and 
 the sacramentals ? 
 
 (Wisd. 16.) It is impossible 
 to escape thy hand. For the 
 wicked that denied to know 
 thee, were scourged by the 
 strength of thy arm, being 
 persecuted by strange waters, 
 and hail, and rain, and con- 
 sumed by fire. And which was 
 wonderful, in water, which ex- 
 tinguisheth all things, the fire 
 had more force : for the world 
 fighteth for the just. For at 
 one time, the fire was mitigated, 
 that the beasts which were sent 
 against the wicked might not 
 be burned, but that they might 
 see and perceive that they were 
 persecuted by the judgment of 
 God. And at another time the 
 fire, above its own power, burnt 
 
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 CA TECHISM, 
 
 in the midst of water, to de- 
 stroy the fruits of a wicked 
 land. Instead of which things 
 thou didst feed thy people with 
 the food of Angels, and gavest 
 them bread from heaven pre- 
 pared without labour ;• having 
 in it all that is delicious, and a 
 sweetness of every taste. For 
 thy sustenance shewed thy 
 sweetness to thy children, and 
 serving every man's will, it was 
 turned to what every man 
 liked. 
 
 Q. "Which is the chief sacra- 
 mental used in the Church ? 
 
 (I. Cor. 1.) The word of the 
 cross, to them indeed that per- 
 ish, is foolishness; but to them 
 that are saved, that is, to us, it 
 is the power of god. For it is 
 written : / will destroy the wis- 
 dom of the wise, and the pru- 
 dence of the prudent I will re- 
 ject. Where is the wise ? Where 
 is the scribe ? Where is the dis- 
 puter of this world ? Hath not 
 God made foolish the wisdom 
 of this world ? For seeing that 
 in the wisdom of God the 
 world, by wisdom, knew not 
 God, it pleased God, by the 
 foolishness of our preaching, to 
 save them that believe. For 
 both the Jews require signs, 
 and the Greeks seek after wis- 
 dom : but we preach Christ 
 crucified, unto the Jews indeed 
 a stumbling-block, and unto the 
 gentiles foolishness : but unto 
 them that are called, both Jews 
 and Greeks, Christ the power 
 of God, and the wisdom of God. 
 For the foolishness of God is 
 
 wiser than men ; and the weak- 
 ness of God is stronger than 
 men. 
 
 Q. How do we make the 
 sign of the cross ? 
 
 (Ezek. 9. A. M. 3410.) The 
 Lord said to him : Go through 
 the midst of the city, through 
 the midst of Jerusalem : and 
 mark Thau upon the foreheads 
 of the men that sigh, and mourn 
 for all the abominations that 
 are committed in the midst 
 thereof. And to the others he 
 said in my hearing : Go ye 
 after him through the city, and 
 strike : let not your eyes spare, 
 nor be 3^e moved with pity. 
 Utterly destroy old and young, 
 maidens, children and women : 
 but upon whomsoever you shall 
 see Thau, kill him not. 
 
 Q. "Why do we make the 
 sign of the cross ? 
 
 (Gal. 6.) God forbid that I 
 should glory, save in the cross 
 of our Lord Jesus Christ : by 
 whom the world is crucified to 
 me, and I to the world. And 
 whosoever shall follow this 
 rule, peace on them, and mercy, 
 and upon the Israel of God. 
 From henceforth let no man be 
 troublesome to me; for I bear 
 the marks of the Lord Jesus in 
 my body. 
 
 Q. How is the sign of the 
 cross a profession of faith 
 in the chief mysteries of our 
 religion ? 
 
 (I. Cor. 1.) We preach Christ 
 crucified, unto the Jews indeed 
 a stumbling-block, and unto the 
 
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 gentiles foolishness : but unto 
 them that are called, both Jews 
 and Greeks, Christ the power 
 of God, and the wisdom of God. 
 For the foolishness of God is 
 wiser than men ; and the weak- 
 ness of God is stronger than 
 men. For see your voca- 
 tion, brethren, that there are 
 'not man}^ wise according to the 
 flesh, not manj^ mighty, not 
 many noble : but the foolish 
 things of the world hath God 
 chosen, that he may confound 
 the wise ; and the weak things 
 of the world hath God chosen, 
 that be may confound the 
 strong. And the base things 
 of the world, and the things 
 that are contemptible hath God 
 chosen, and things that are not, 
 that he might bring to nought 
 things that are: that no flesh 
 should glor}^ in his sight. 
 
 Q. How^ does the sign of the 
 cross express the mystery 
 of the Unity and Trinity of 
 Qod? 
 
 (I. John 5.) There are three 
 who give testimony in heaven, 
 the Father, the w^ord, and the 
 Holy Ghost. And these three 
 are one. 
 
 Q. How does the sign of the 
 cross express the mystery 
 of the Incarnation and death 
 of our Lord ? 
 
 (Ezek. 37. A. M. 3430.) The 
 w^ord of the Lord came to me, 
 saying: And thou son of man, 
 take thee a stick : and write 
 upon it: Of Juda, and of the 
 cliildren of Israel his associates : 
 and take another stick and write 
 
 upon it : For Joseph the stick 
 of Ephraim, and for all the 
 house of Israel, and of his asso- 
 ciates. And join them one to 
 the other into one stick, and 
 they shall become one in thy 
 hand. And when the children 
 of thy people shall speak to 
 thee, saying : AVilt thou not 
 tell us what thou meanest by 
 this? Say to them: Thus 
 saith the Lord God: Behold, I 
 will take the stick of Joseph, 
 which is in the hand of Epli- 
 raim, and the tribes of Israel 
 that are associated with him, 
 and I will put them together 
 with the stick of Juda, and will 
 make them one stick : and they 
 shall be one in his hand. And 
 the sticks whereon thou hast 
 written, shall be in thy hand, 
 before their eyes. And thou 
 shalt say to them : Thus saith 
 the Lord God: Behold, I will 
 take the children of Israel from 
 the midst of the nations whither 
 they are gone: and I will 
 gather them on every side, and 
 will bring them to their own 
 land. And I wmII make them 
 one nation in the land on the 
 mountains of Israel, and one 
 king shall be king over them 
 all : and they shall no more be 
 two nations, neither shall they 
 be divided any more into two 
 kingdoms. And I will make a 
 covenant of peace wnth them, it 
 shall be an everlasting covenant 
 with them : and I will establish 
 them, and will multiply them, 
 and will set my sanctuar}'- in 
 the midst of them for ever. 
 And my tabernacle sliMl be 
 
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 with them : and I will be their 
 God, and they shall be my peo- 
 ple. And the nations shall 
 know that I am the Lord the 
 sanctilier of Israel, when my 
 sanctuary shall be in the midst 
 of them for ever. 
 
 Q. "What other sacramental 
 is in very frequent use ? 
 
 (Num. 19.) They shall pour 
 living waters into a vessel. 
 And a man that is clean shall 
 dip hyssop in them, and shall 
 sprinkle therewith all the tent, 
 and all the furniture, and the 
 men that are defiled with touch- 
 ing any unclean thing : and in 
 this manner he that is clean 
 shall purify the unclean on the 
 third and on the seventh day. 
 And being expiated the seventh 
 day, he shall wash both him- 
 self and his garments, and be 
 unclean nntil the evening. If 
 any man be not expiated after 
 this rite, his soul shall perish 
 out of the midst of the church : 
 because he hath profaned the 
 sanctuary of the Lord, and was 
 not sprinkled with the water of 
 purification. 
 
 Q. What is holy 'water ? 
 
 (Num. 8. A. M. 2514.) The 
 Lord spoke to Moses, saying : 
 Take the Levites out of the 
 midst of the children of Israel, 
 and thou shalt purify them, 
 according to this rite : Let 
 them be sprinkled with the 
 water of purification. 
 
 (lY. Kings 2.) The men of 
 the city said to Eliseus : Be- 
 
 hold the situation of this city 
 is very good, as thou, my lord, 
 seest : but the waters are 
 very bad, and the ground 
 barren. And he said ; bring 
 me a new vessel, and put salt 
 into it. And when they had 
 brought it, he went out to the 
 spring of the waters, and cast 
 the salt into it, and said : Thus 
 saith the Lord : I have healed 
 these waters, and there shall be 
 no more in them death or bar- 
 renness. And the waters were 
 healed unto this day, according 
 to the word of Eliseus, which 
 he spoke. 
 
 Q. Are there other sacra- 
 mentals besides the sign of 
 the cross and holy water ? 
 
 (Lev. 6.) The fire on the 
 altar shall alwa3^s burn, and 
 the priest shall feed it, putting 
 wood on it every day in the 
 morning, and laying on the 
 holocaust, shall burn thereupon 
 the fat of the peace-offerings. 
 This is the perpetual fire which 
 shall never go out on the altar. 
 
 (Gen. 2.) In the sweat of thy 
 face shalt thou eat bread till 
 thou return to the earth, out 
 of which thou wast taken : for 
 dust thou art, and into dust 
 thou shalt return. 
 
 (John 12. A. D. 33.) On the 
 next day a great multitude, 
 that was come to the festival 
 day, when they had heard that 
 Jesus was coming to Jerusa- 
 lem, — Took branches of palm- 
 trees, and went forth to meet 
 Him, and cried : Hosanna, 
 blessed is He that cometh in 
 
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 the name of the Lord, the king 
 of Israel. 
 
 (III. Kings 6. A.M. 3000.) All 
 the walls of the temple round 
 about he carved with divers 
 figures and carvings: and he 
 made in them cherubim and 
 palm-trees, and divers repre- 
 sentations as it were standing 
 out, and coming forth from the 
 wall. 
 
 (Apoc. 8.) Another angel 
 came, and stood before the 
 altar, having a golden censer : 
 and there was given to him 
 much incense, that he should 
 offer of the prayers of all saints 
 upon the golden altar, which is 
 before the throne of God. — And 
 
 the smoke of the incense of the 
 praj'Crs of the saints ascended 
 up before God, from the hand 
 of the angel. 
 
 (Apoc. 12.) A great sign 
 appeared in heaven : A woman 
 clothed with the sun, and the 
 moon under her feet, and on 
 her head a crown of twelve 
 stars. 
 
 (Isa. 61.) I will greatly re- 
 joice in the Lord, and my soul 
 shall be joyful in my God : for 
 He hath clothed me with the 
 garments of salvation; and 
 with the robe of justice he hath 
 covered me, as a bridegroom 
 decked with a crown, and as a 
 bride adorned with her jewels. 
 
 LESSON TWENTY-EIGHTH. 
 
 ON PRAYER, 
 
 Q. Is there any other means 
 of obtaining God's grace 
 than the Sacraments ? 
 
 (I. Kings 16. A. M. 2934.) The 
 spirit of the Lord departed from 
 Saul, and an evil spirit from 
 the Lord troubled him. And 
 Saul said to his servants : Pro- 
 vide me some man that can 
 play well, and bring him to me. 
 And one of the servants an- 
 swering, said: Behold I have 
 seen a son of Isai the Bethlehem- 
 ite, a skilful player, and one 
 of great strength, and a man 
 fit for war, and prudent in his 
 words, and a comely person : 
 and the Lord is with him. Then 
 Saul sent messengers to Isai, 
 
 saying: Send me David thy 
 son, who is in the pastures. 
 And Isai took an ass laden with 
 bread, and a bottle of wine, and 
 a kid of the flock, and sent them 
 by the hand of David his son to 
 Saul. And David came to 
 Saul, and stood before him : and 
 he loved him exceedingly, and 
 made him his armour-bearer. 
 And Saul sent to Isai, saying : 
 Let David stand before me : for 
 he hath found favour in my 
 sight. So whensoever the evil 
 spirit from the Lord was upon 
 Saul, David took his harp, and 
 plaj^ed with his hand, and Saul 
 was refreshed, and was better, for 
 the evil spirit departed from him. 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 Q. "What is prayer ? 
 
 (Col. 3.) All whatsoever you 
 do in word or in work, do all in 
 the name of the Lord Jesus 
 Christ, giving thanks to God 
 and the Father by hiin. Wives, 
 be subjeet to your husbands, as 
 it behoveth in the Lord. Hus- 
 bands, love your wives, and be 
 not bitter towards them. Chil- 
 dren, obey your parents in all 
 things : for this is well pleasing 
 to the Lord. Fathers, provoke 
 not your children to indigna- 
 tion, lest they be discouraged. 
 Servants, obey in all things 
 your masters according to the 
 flesh, not serving to the e3'e, as 
 pleasing men, but in simplicity 
 of heart, fearing God. What- 
 soever you do, do it from the 
 heart, as to the Lord, and not 
 to men : knowing that you 
 shall receive of the Lord the 
 reward of inheritance. 
 
 (Num. 10. A. M. 2514.) The 
 Lord spoke to Moses, saying : 
 Make thee two trumpets of 
 beaten silver, wherewith thou 
 may est call together the multi- 
 tude when the camp is to be \ 
 removed. And when thou shalt j 
 sound the trumpets, all the ; 
 multitude shall gather unto 
 thee to the door of the taber- 
 nacle of the covenant. If thou 
 sound but once, the princes and 
 the heads of the multitude of 
 Israel shall come to thee. But 
 if the sound of the trumpets be 
 longer, and with interruptions, 
 they that are on the east side, 
 shall first go forward. And at 
 the second sounding and like 
 noise of the trumpet, they who 
 
 lie on the south side shall take 
 up their tents. And after this 
 manner shall the rest do, when 
 the trumpets shall sound for a 
 march. lUit when the people 
 is to be gathered together, the 
 sound of the trumpets shall be 
 plain, and they shall not make 
 a broken sound. And the sons 
 of Aaron the priest shall sound 
 the trumpets : and this shall be 
 an ordinance for ever in your 
 generations. If you go forth 
 to war out of your land against 
 the enemies that fight against 
 you, you shall sound aloud with 
 the trumpets, and there shall 
 be a remembrance of 3'ou before 
 the Lord your God, that you 
 may be delivered out of the 
 hands of your enemies. If at 
 any time you shall have a ban- 
 quet, and on your festival days, 
 and on the first days of your 
 months, you shall sound the 
 trumpets over the holocausts, 
 and the sacrifices of peace- ofierr 
 ings, that th^y may be to you 
 for a remembrance of jour God. 
 1 am the Lord 3'our God. 
 
 (III. Kings 3. A. M. 2991.) 
 The Loid api)eared to Solomon 
 in a dream by night, sajing : 
 Ask what thou wilt that I should 
 give thee. And Solomon said : 
 Thou hast sliewn great mercy 
 to 1 113' servant David mj^ father, 
 even as he walked before thee 
 in truth, and justice, and an 
 upright heart with thee: and 
 tiiou hast kept thy great mercy 
 for him, and hast given him a 
 son to sit on his throne, as it is 
 tiiis da3\ And now, O Lord 
 God, thou hast made thy serv- 
 
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 ant king instead of David my 
 father : and I am but a child, 
 and know not how to go out and 
 come in. And thy servant is 
 in the midst of the people which 
 thou hast chosen, an immense 
 people, which cannot be num- 
 bered nor counted for multitude. 
 Give therefore to thy servant 
 an understanding heart, to 
 judge thj^ people, and discern 
 between good and evil. For 
 who shall be able to judge this 
 people, thy people which is so 
 numerous ? And the word was 
 pleasing to the Lord that Solo- 
 mon had asked such a thing. 
 And the Lord said to Solomon : 
 Because thou hast asked this 
 thing, and hast not asked for 
 thyself long life or riches, nor 
 the lives of thy enemies, but 
 hast asked for thyself wisdom 
 to discern judgment, behold I 
 have done for thee according to 
 thy words, and have given thee 
 a wise and understanding heart, 
 insomuch that there hath been 
 no one like thee before thee, nor 
 shall arise after thee. Yea and 
 the things also which thou 
 didst not ask, I have given 
 thee : to wit, riches and glory, 
 so that no one hath been like 
 thee among the kings in all 
 days heretofore. And if thou 
 wilt walk in m}^ ways, and keep 
 my precepts, and my command- 
 ments, as thy father walked, I 
 will lengthen thy da^^s. And 
 Solomon awaked, and perceived 
 that it was a dream : and when 
 he was come to Jerusalem, he 
 stood before the ark of the cov- 
 enant of the Lord, and offered 
 
 holocausts, and sacrificed vic- 
 tims. 
 
 (Dan. 6. A. M. 3466.) It 
 seemed good to Darius, and he 
 appointed over the kingdom a 
 hundred and twenty governors 
 to be over his whole kingdom, 
 I and three princes over them, 
 of whom Daniel was one. And 
 Daniel excelled all the princes 
 and governors : because a 
 greater spirit of God was in 
 him. And the king thought to 
 set him over all the kingdom : 
 whereupon the princes, and the 
 governors sought to find occa- 
 sion against Daniel with regard 
 to the king. Then the princes, 
 and the governors craftily sug- 
 gested to the king, that an edict 
 be published : That whosoever 
 shall ask an}^ petition of any 
 god, or man, for thirty days, 
 but of thee, O king, shall be 
 cast into the den of lions. Now 
 when Daniel knew this, that is 
 to say, that the law was made, 
 he w^ent into his house : and 
 opening the windows in his up- 
 per chamber towards Jerusalem , 
 he knelt down three times a 
 da}^, and adored, and gave 
 thanks before his God, as he 
 had been accustomed to do be- 
 fore. Wherefore those men 
 carefully w^atching him, found 
 Daniel praying and making 
 supplication to his God. And 
 they came and spoke to the 
 king concerning the edict. Now 
 when the king had heard these 
 words, he was very much 
 grieved, and in behalf of Daniel 
 he set his heart to deliver him 
 and even till sunset he laboured 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 to save him. But those men 
 perceiving the king's design, 
 said to him : Know thou, 
 king, that the law of the Medes 
 and Persians is, that no decree 
 which the king hath made, may 
 be altered. Then the king com- 
 manded, and they brought Dan- 
 iel, and cast him into the den 
 of the lions. And the king said 
 to Daniel: Thy God, whom 
 thou always servest, he will de- 
 liver thee. And the king went 
 away to his house and laid him- 
 self down without taking sup- 
 per, and meat was not set be- 
 fore him, and even sleep de- 
 parted from him. Then the 
 king rising very early in the 
 morning, went in haste to the 
 lions' den : and coming near to 
 the den, cried with a lamentable 
 voice to Daniel, and said to him : 
 Daniel, servant of the living 
 God, hath thy God, whom thou 
 servest always, been able, thin k- 
 est thou, to deliver thee from 
 the lions ? A nd Daniel answer- 
 ing the king, said: O king, 
 live forever: mv God hath 
 sent his Angel, and hath shut 
 up the mouths of the lions, and 
 tliey have not hurt me : foras- 
 much as before him justice hath 
 been found in me : yea and be- 
 fore thee, O king, I have done 
 no offence. Then was the king 
 exceeding glad for him, and he 
 commanded that Daniel should 
 be taken out of the den : and 
 Daniel was taken out of the den, 
 and no hurt was found in him, 
 because he believed in his God. 
 And by the king's command- 
 ment, those men were brought 
 
 that had accused Daniel : and 
 the}^ were cast into the lions' 
 den , they and their children , and 
 their wives : and they did not 
 reach the bottom of the den, 
 before the lions caught them, 
 and broke all their bones in 
 pieces. Then King Darius 
 wrote to all people : It is decreed 
 by me, that in all my empire 
 and my kingdom all men dread 
 and fear the God of Daniel. 
 For he is the living and eternal 
 God for ever : and his kingdom 
 shall not be destroyed, and his 
 power shall be forever. He is 
 the deliverer and saviour, doing 
 signs, and wonders in heaven, 
 and in earth : who hath deliv- 
 ered Daniel out of the lions' 
 den. 
 
 Q. Is prayer necessary to 
 salvation ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p- 106, No. 9. 
 
 Q. At what particular times 
 should we pray ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 40, No. 37 ; p. 44, No. 49. 
 
 (Num. 28. A. M. 2553.) The 
 Lord said to Moses : Command 
 the children of Israel, and thou 
 shalt say to them ; Offer ye my 
 oblation and my bread, and 
 burnt-sacrifice of most sweet 
 odour, in their due seasons. 
 These are the sacrifices which 
 you shall ofl[*er: Two lambs of 
 a year old without blemish 
 every day for the perpetual 
 holocaust: one you shall offer 
 in the morning, and the other 
 in the evening : and on the sab- 
 bath day you shall offer two 
 lambs of a year old without 
 blemish, and two tenths of flour 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
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 tempered with oil in sacrifice, 
 and the libations. And on the 
 first day of the month }■ ou shall 
 offer a holocaust to the Lord, 
 two calves of the herd, one ram, 
 and seven lambs of a year old, 
 without blemish, so shall you 
 do every day of the seven days 
 for the food of the fire, and for 
 a most sweet odour to the Lord, 
 which shall rise from the holo- 
 caust, and from the libations of 
 each. The seventh day also 
 shall be most solemn and holy 
 unto you : you shall do no 
 servile work therein. 
 
 Q. How should we pray ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 33, No. 15 ; p. 63, No. 22 ; 
 p. 80, Nos. 3, 4. 
 
 (Gen. 18. A. M.2107). The 
 Lord said : The cry of Sodom 
 and Gomorrha is multiplied, 
 and their sin is become exceed- 
 ingly grievous. I will go down 
 and see whether they have done 
 according to the cry that is 
 come to me : or whether it be 
 not so, that I may know. And 
 they turned themselves from 
 thence, and went their way to 
 Sodom : but Abraham as yet 
 stood before the Lord. And 
 drawing nigh he said: Wilt 
 thou destroy the just with the 
 wicked ? If there be fifty just 
 meu in the cit}^, shall the^^ 
 perish withal ? and wilt thou 
 not spare that place for the 
 sake of the fifty just, if they 
 be therein? Far be it from 
 thee to do this thing, and to 
 slay the just with the wicked, 
 and for the just to be in like 
 case as the wicked, this is not 
 
 10 
 
 beseeming tl:ee : thou who 
 judgest all the earth, wilt not 
 make this judgment. And the 
 Lord said to him : If I find in 
 Sodom fifty just within the 
 city, I will spare the whole 
 place for their sake. And Abra- 
 ham answered, and said : 
 Seeing I have once begun, I 
 will speak to m}" Lord, whereas 
 I am dust and ashes. What if 
 there be five less than fifty just 
 persons ? wilt thou for five and 
 forty destroy the whole city 1 
 And he said : I will not de- 
 stroy it, if I find five and forty. 
 And again he said to him : But 
 if forty be found there, what 
 wilt thou do ? He said : I will 
 not destroy it for the sake of 
 forty. Lord, saith he, be not 
 angry, I beseech thee, if I 
 speak : What if thirty shall 
 be found there ? He answered : 
 I will not do it, if I find thirty 
 there. Seeing, saith he, I have 
 once begun, I will speak to my 
 Lord. What if twenty be 
 found there? He said; I will 
 not destroy it for the sake of 
 twenty. I beseech thee, saith 
 he, be not angry, Lord, if I 
 speak yet once more : What if 
 ten should be found there ? 
 And he said : I will not destroy 
 it for the sake of ten. And 
 the Lord departed, after he had 
 left speaking to Abraham : and 
 Abraham returned to his place. 
 (Ex. 17. A. M. 2514.) Josue 
 did as Moses had spoken, and 
 he fought against Amalec; 
 but Moses, and Aaron, and Hur 
 went up upon the top of the 
 hill. And when Moses lifted 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 up his hands, Israel overcame : 
 but if he let them down a 
 little, Amalec overcame.' And 
 Moses's hands were heavy : so 
 they took a stone, and put un- 
 der him, and he sat on it : and 
 Aaron and Hur stayed up his 
 hands on both sides. And it 
 came to pass that his hands 
 were not weary until sunset. 
 And Josue put Amalec and his 
 people to flight, by the edge of 
 the sword. 
 
 (Judg. 20. A. M. 2887.) The 
 children of Israel rising in the 
 morning, camped by Gabaa ; 
 and going out from thence to 
 fight against Benjamin, began 
 to assault the city. And the 
 children of Benjamin coming 
 out of Gabaa, slew of the chil- 
 dren of Israel that day two and 
 tw^enty thousand men. Again 
 Israel trusting in their strength 
 and their number, set their 
 army in array in the same 
 place, where they had fought 
 before : yet so that they first 
 went up and wept before the 
 Lord until night : and consulted 
 him and said : Shall I go out 
 any more to fight against the 
 children of Benjamin my 
 brethren, or no? And he an- 
 swered them : Go up against 
 them, and join battle. And 
 when the children of Israel 
 went out the next day to fight 
 against the children of Benja- 
 min, the children of Benjamin 
 sallied forth out of the gates of 
 Gabaa : and meeting them made 
 so great a slaughter of them, as 
 to kill eighteen thousand men 
 that drew the sword. Where- 
 
 fore all the children of Israel 
 came to the house of God, and 
 sat and wept before the Lord : 
 and they fasted that day till 
 the evening, and offered to him 
 holocausts, and victims of peace- 
 ofiTerings, and inquired of him 
 concerning their state. At that 
 time the ark of the covenant of 
 the Lord was there, and Phinees 
 the son of Eleazar the son of 
 Aaron was over the house. So 
 they consulted the Lord and 
 said : Shall we go out any 
 more to fight against the chil- 
 dren of Benjamin our brethren, 
 or shall w^e cease ? And the 
 Lord said to them : Go up, for 
 to-morrow I will deliver tliera 
 into your hands. And the 
 Lord defeated them before the 
 children of Israel, and they 
 slew of them in that day five 
 and twent}^ thousand, and one 
 hundred, all fighting men and 
 that drew the sword. 
 
 (III. Kings 18.) Achab 
 went up to eat and drink : and 
 Elias went up to the top of 
 Carmel, and casting himself 
 down upon the earth put his 
 face beeween his knees, and he 
 said to his servant : Go up, and 
 look toward the sea. And he 
 went up, and looked, and said : 
 There is nothing. And again 
 he said to him : Return seven 
 times. And at the seventh 
 time : Behold a little cloud 
 arose out of the sea like a man's 
 foot. And he said : Go up 
 and say to Achab : Prepare 
 thy chariot and go down, lest 
 the rain prevent thee. And 
 while he turned himself this 
 
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 way and tbat way, behold the 
 heavens grew dark, with 
 clouds, and wind, and there fell 
 a great rain. 
 
 Q. "Which are the prayers 
 most recommended to us ? 
 
 See '' L. of C," p. 75, No. 15. 
 
 Q. Are prayers said -with 
 distractions of any avail ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 47, No. 2 ; p. 88. No. 23. 
 
 (Num. 15. A.M. 2530.) The 
 Lord also said to Moses : Speak 
 to the children of Israel, and 
 thou shalt tell them to make to 
 
 themselves fringes in the cor- 
 ners of their garments, putting 
 in them ribands of blue : that 
 when they shall see them, they 
 may remember all the com- 
 mandments of the Lord, and 
 not follow their own thoughts 
 and eyes going astray after 
 divers things, but rather being 
 mindful of the precepts of the 
 Lord, may do them and be holy 
 to their God. I am the Lord 
 your God, who brought you out 
 of the land of Egypt, that I 
 might be your God. 
 
 LESSON TWENTY-NINTH. 
 
 ON THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. 
 
 Q. Is it enough to belong- to 
 God's Church in order to be 
 saved ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 34, No. 22; p. 65, No. 27; 
 p. 70, No. 2. 
 
 (Rom. 2.) Circumcision 
 profiteth indeed, if thou keep 
 the law ; but if thou be a trans- 
 gressor of the law, thy circum- 
 cision is made uncircumcision. 
 If, then, the nncircumcised 
 keep the justices of the law, 
 shall not this uncircumcision 
 be counted for circumcision ? 
 And shall not that which by 
 nature is uncircumcision, if it 
 fulfil the law, judge thee, w^ho 
 by the letter and circumcision 
 art a transsfressor of the law ? 
 For it is not he is a Jew, that 
 is so outwardly ; nor is that 
 circumcision, which is outward 
 in the flesh. But he is a Jew, 
 
 that is. one inwardly ; and the 
 circumcision is that of the 
 heart, in the spirit, not in the 
 letter ; whose praise is not of 
 men, but of God. 
 
 Q. 'WTiich are the Command- 
 ments that contain the 
 Tvhole la-w of God ? 
 
 See"L. of C, "p. 32, No. 13. 
 
 (I. John 4.) Let us love God, 
 because God first hath loved us. 
 If 2iX\y man sa}^, I love God, 
 and hateth his brother ; he is a 
 liar. For he that loveth not 
 his brother, whom he seeth, 
 how can he love God, whom he 
 seeth not? And this com- 
 mandment we have from God, 
 that he, who loveth God, love 
 also his brother. 
 
 (Dent. 22.) Thou shalt not 
 pass by if thou seest thy 
 
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 brother's ox, or his sheep go 
 astray : but thou shalt bring 
 them back to thy brother. And 
 if thy brother be not nigh, or 
 thou know him not : thou shalt 
 bring them to thy house, and 
 they shall be with thee until 
 thy brother seek them, and re- 
 ceive them. Thou shalt do in 
 like manner with his ass, and 
 with his raiment, and with 
 every thing that is thy 
 brother's, which is lost : if 
 thou find it, neglect it not as 
 pertaining to another. If thou 
 see thy brother's ass or his ox 
 to be fallen down in the way, 
 thou shalt not slight it, but 
 shalt lift it up with him. A 
 woman shall not be clothed with 
 man's apparel, neither shall a 
 man use woman's apparel : for 
 he that doeth these things is 
 abominable before God. If 
 thou find as thou walkest by 
 the way, a bird's nest in a tree, 
 or on the ground, and the dam 
 sitting upon the 3'oung or upon 
 the eggs : thou shalt not take 
 her with her 3"oung : but shalt 
 let her go, keeping the young 
 which thou hast caught : that it 
 may be well with thee, and 
 thou mayest live a long time. 
 
 Q. "WTiy do these two Com- 
 mandments of the love of 
 Grod and of our neighbor 
 contain the whole law of 
 G-od? 
 
 See '• L. of C," p. 91, No. 32 ; p. 102, No. 7. 
 
 Q. Which are the Command- 
 ments of God ? 
 
 (Dan. 14. A. M. 3398.) Dan- 
 iel was the king's guest, and 
 
 w^as honoured above all his 
 friends. Now the Babylonians 
 had an idol called Bel : and 
 there were spent upon him 
 every da^^ twelve great meas- 
 ures of fine flour, and forty 
 sheep, and sixty vessels of 
 wine. The king also wor- 
 shipped him, and went every 
 day to adore him: but Daniel 
 adored his God. And the king 
 said to him : Why dost thou 
 not adore Bel ? And he an- 
 swered, and said to him : Be- 
 cause I do not worship idols 
 made with hands, but the liv- 
 ing God, that created heaven 
 and earth, and hath power over 
 all flesh. And the king said to 
 him : Doth not Bel seem to thee 
 to be a living god ? Seest thou 
 not how much he eateth and 
 drinketh every day ? Then 
 Daniel smiled and said : O 
 king, be not deceived : for this 
 is but clay within, and brass 
 without, neither hath he eaten 
 at any time. And the king 
 being angry called for his 
 priests, and said to them : If 
 you tell me not, who it is that 
 eateth up these expenses, j^ou 
 shall die. But if you can shew 
 that Bel eateth these things, 
 Daniel shall die, because he 
 hath blasphemed against Bel. 
 And Daniel said to the king: 
 Be it done according to thy 
 word. So it came to pass 
 after they were gone out, the 
 king set the meats before Bel : 
 and Daniel commanded his 
 servants, and they brought 
 ashes, and he sifted them all 
 over the temple before the 
 
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 king ; and going forth they 
 shut tbe door, and having 
 sealed it with tlje king's ring, 
 they departed. But the priests 
 went in by night, according to 
 their custom, with their wives 
 and their children : and they 
 eat and drank up all. And the 
 king arose early in the morn- 
 ing, and Daniel with him. And 
 the king said : are the seals 
 whole, Daniel? And he an- 
 swered : They are whole, 
 king. And as soon as he had 
 opened the door, the king 
 looked upon the table, and 
 cried out with a loud voice : 
 Great art thou O Bel, and there 
 is not au}^ deceit with thee. 
 And Daniel laughed : and he 
 held the king that he should 
 not go in : and he said : Be- 
 hold the pavement, mark whose 
 foot-steps these are. And the 
 king said : I see the foot-steps 
 of men, and women, and chil- 
 dren. And the king was angry. 
 Then he took the priests, and 
 their wives, and their children : 
 and they shewed him the private 
 doors by which they came in, 
 and consumed the things that 
 were on the table. The king 
 therefore put them to death, 
 and delivered Bel into the 
 power of Daniel : who de- 
 stroyed him, and his temple. 
 
 (Eecltus. 23.) , Let not thy 
 mouth be accustomed to swear- 
 ing : for in it there are many 
 falls. And let not the naming 
 of God be usual in thy mouth, 
 and meddle not with the names 
 of saints, for thou shalt not es- 
 cape free from them. For as a 
 
 slave daily put to the question, 
 is never without a blue mark : 
 so every one that sweareth, and 
 nameth, shall not be wholly 
 pure from sin. A man that 
 sw^eareth much, shall be filled 
 with iniquity, and a scourge 
 shall not depart from his house. 
 And if he make it void, his 
 sin shall be upon him : and if 
 he dissemble it, he offendeth 
 double : and if he swear in 
 vain, he shall not be justified : 
 for his house shall be filled with 
 his punishment. 
 
 (Isa. 56.) Blessed is the 
 man that doth this, and the son 
 of man that shall lay hold on 
 this : that keepeth the sabbath 
 from profaning it,for thus saith 
 the Lord : They that shall keep 
 my sabbaths, and shall choose 
 the things that please me, and 
 shall hold fast my covenant : 
 I will give to them in my house, 
 and w ithin my walls, a place, 
 and a name better than sons 
 and daughters : I will give 
 them an everlasting name which 
 shall never perish. And the 
 children of the stranger that 
 adliere to the Lord, to worship 
 him, and to love his name, to be 
 his servants : every one that 
 keepeth the sabbath from pro- 
 faning it, and that holdeth fast 
 my covenant : I will bring them 
 into my holy mount, and will 
 make them joyful in my house 
 of prayer : their holocausts, and 
 their victims shall please me 
 upon my altar : for my house 
 shall be called the house of 
 prayer, for all nations. 
 
 (JEccltus. 3.) Children, hear 
 
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 the judgment of j'our father, 
 and so do that you may be 
 saved. For God hath made the 
 father honourable to the chil- 
 dren : and seeking the judg- 
 ment of the mothers, hath con- 
 firmed it upon the children. 
 And he that honoureth his 
 mother is as one that layeth up 
 a treasure. He that honoureth 
 his father shall have joy in his 
 own children, and in the day of 
 his prajer he shall be heard. 
 He that honoureth his father 
 shall eujoy a long life : and he 
 that obeyeth the father, shall 
 be a comfort to his mother. 
 He that feareth the Lord, hon- 
 oreuth his parents, and will 
 serve them as his masters that 
 brought him into the world. 
 Honour thy father, in work and 
 word, and all patience, that a 
 blessing may come upon thee 
 from him, and his blessing ma}^ 
 remain in the latter end. The 
 father's blessing establisheth 
 the houses of the children : but 
 the mother's curse rooteth up 
 the foundation. Glory not in 
 the dishonour of thy father : 
 for bis shame is no glory to 
 thee. For the glory of a man 
 is from the honour of his father, 
 and a father without honour is 
 the disgrace of the son. Son, 
 support tlie old age of thy 
 father, and grieve him not in 
 his life; and if his understand- 
 ing fail, have patience with him, 
 and despise him not when thou 
 art in thy strength : for the re- 
 lieving of the father shall not 
 be forgotten. 
 
 (Gen. 9.) I will require the 
 
 blood of your lives at the hand 
 of every beast, and at the hand 
 of man, at the hand of every 
 man, and of his brother, will I 
 require the life of man. Who- 
 soever shall shed man's blood, 
 his blood shall be shed : for 
 man was made to the image of 
 God. 
 
 (Gen. 12. A. M. 2084.) There 
 came a famine in the country ; 
 and Abram went down into 
 EgyP^) ^^ sojourn there : for 
 the famine was very grievous 
 in the land. And when he was 
 near to enter into Egypt, he 
 said to Sarai his wife : I know 
 that tliou art a beautiful wom- 
 an : and that when the Egyp- 
 tians shall see thee, they will 
 say : She is his wife ; and they 
 will kill me, and keep thee. 
 Say, therefore, I pray thee, that 
 thou art my sister : that I may 
 be well used for thee, and that 
 m}^ soul may live for thy sake. 
 And when Abram was come 
 into Eg3'pt, the Egyptians saw 
 the woman that she was very 
 beautifuh And the princes told 
 Pharao, and praised her before 
 him : and the woman was taken 
 into the house of Pharao. And 
 tliey used Abram well for her 
 sake : And he had sheep and 
 oxen, and he-asses and men- 
 servants and maid-servants, and 
 she-asses, and camels. But the 
 Lord scourged Pharao and his 
 house with most grievous 
 stripes for Sarai, Ab ram's wife. 
 And Pharao called Abram, and 
 said to him : What is this that 
 thou hast done to me ? Why 
 i didst thou not tell me that she 
 
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 was thy wife ? For what cause \ 
 didst tliou say, she was tiiy sis- 1 
 ter, that I might take her to \ 
 my wife? Now, therefore, there 
 is thy wife, take her and go thy 
 wa3^ 
 
 (Josh. 7. A.M. 2553.) Achan 
 answered Josue, and said to 
 liim : indeed I have sinned 
 against the Lord the God of 
 Israel, and thus and thus have 
 I done. For I saw among the 
 spoils a scarlet garment exceed- 
 ing good, and two hundred 
 sides of silver, and a golden 
 rule of fifty sides : and I cov- 
 eted them, and I took them 
 away, and hid them in the 
 ground in the midst of my tent, 
 and the silver I covered with 
 the earth that I dug up. Josue 
 therefore sent ministers : who 
 running to his tent, found all 
 hidden in the same place, to- 
 gether with the silver. And 
 taking them away out of the 
 tent, they brought them to 
 Josue, and to all the children 
 of Israel, and threw them down 
 before the Lord. Then Josue 
 and all Israel with him took 
 Achan the son of Zare, and the 
 silver and the garments, and 
 the golden rule, his sons also 
 and his daughters, his oxen and 
 asses and sheep, the tent also, 
 and all the goods : and brought 
 them to the valley of Achor : 
 where Josue said : Because 
 thou hast troubled us, the Lord 
 trouble thee this day. And all 
 Israel stoned him: and all 
 things that were his, were con- 
 sumed with fire. And the}' 
 gathered together upon him a 
 
 great heap of stones, which re- 
 maineth until tliis present day. 
 And the wrath of the Lord was 
 turned aAvay from them. 
 
 (III. Kings 21. A.M. 3105.) 
 Naboth the Jezrahelite, who 
 was in Jezrahel had at that 
 time a vineyard near the palace 
 of Achab king of Samaria. And 
 Achab spoke to Naboth, say- 
 ing : Give me thy vineyard, 
 that I may make me a garden 
 of herbs, because it is nigh, and 
 joining to my house, and I will 
 give thee for it a better vine- 
 yard : or if thou think it more 
 convenient for thee, I will give 
 thee the worth of it in money. 
 Naboth answered him: The Lord 
 be merciful to me, and not let 
 me give thee the inheritance of 
 mv fathers. And Achab came 
 into His house angry and fret- 
 ting, because of the word that 
 Naboth had said. Then Jeza- 
 bel his wife said to him: be of 
 good cheer, I will give thee the 
 vinej'ard of Naboth the Jezra- 
 helite. So she wrote letters in 
 Achab's name, and sealed them 
 with his ring, and sent them to 
 the ancients, and the chief men 
 that were in his city, and that 
 dwelt with Naboth. And this 
 was the tenor of the letters: 
 Proclaim a fast, and make Na- 
 both sit among the chief of the 
 people, and suborn two men, 
 sons of Belial against him, and 
 let them bear false witness : 
 that he hath blasphemed God 
 and the king : and then carry 
 him out, and stone him, and so 
 let him die. And they sent to 
 Jezabel, saying : Naboth is 
 
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 stoned, and is dead. And the 
 word of the Lord came to Elias 
 the Thesbite, saying: Arise, 
 and go down to meet Aehab 
 king of Israel, who is in Sama- 
 ria : behold he is going down 
 to the vineyard of Naboth, to 
 take possession of it : and thou 
 shalt speak to him, saying: 
 Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast 
 slain, moreover also thou hast 
 taken possession. And after 
 these words thou shalt add : 
 Thus saith the Lord : In this 
 place, wherein the dogs have 
 licked the blood of Naboth, they 
 shall lick thy blood also. And 
 of Jezabel also the Lord spoke, 
 saying : The dogs shall eat 
 Jezabel in the field of Jezrahel. 
 
 (II. Kings 11. A. M. 2969.) 
 It happened that David arose 
 from his bed after noon, and 
 walked upon the roof of the 
 king's house : and he saw from 
 the roof of his house a woman 
 washing herself, over-against 
 him : and the woman was very 
 beautiful. And the king sent, 
 and inquired who the woman 
 was. And it was told him, that 
 she was Bethsabee the daugh- 
 ter of Eliam, the wife of Urias 
 the Hethite. And David sent 
 messengers, and took her, and 
 this thing which David had 
 done, was displeasing to the 
 Lord. 
 
 (Eph. 5.) But covetous- 
 ness, let it not so much as be 
 named among you, as becometh 
 saints : For know 3"ou this and 
 understand, that no covetous 
 person hath inheritance in the 
 kingdom of Christ and of God. 
 
 Q. Who gave the Ten Com- 
 mandments ? 
 
 (Ex. 19. A. M. 2513.) In 
 the third month of the depart- 
 ure of Israel out of the land of 
 Egypt, on this day they came 
 into the wilderness of Sinai : 
 for departing out of Eaphi- 
 dim, and coming to the desert 
 of Sinai, they camped in the 
 same place, and there Israel 
 pitched their tents over-against 
 the mountain. And Moses 
 went up to God : and the 
 Lord, when he had ended his 
 words in mount Sinai, gave to 
 Moses two stone-tables of testi- 
 mony, written with the finger 
 of God. And the people seeing 
 that Moses delayed to come 
 down from the mount, gather- 
 ing together against Aaron, 
 said : Arise, make us gods, that 
 may go before us : For as to 
 this Moses, the man that 
 brought us out of the land of 
 Egypt, we know not what has 
 befallen him. And Aaron said 
 to them : Take the golden ear- 
 rings from the ears of 3'our 
 wives, and your sons and 
 daughters, and bring them to 
 me. And the people did what 
 he had commanded, bringing 
 the ear-rings to Aaron. And 
 when he had received them, he 
 fashioned them by founders' 
 work, and made of them a mol- 
 ten calf And they said : These 
 are thy gods, Israel, that 
 have brought thee out of the 
 land of Egypt. And the Lord 
 spoke to Moses, saying : Go, 
 get thee down : thy people, 
 
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 which thou hast brought out 
 of the land of Egypt, hath 
 sinned. And Moses returned 
 from the mount, carrjing the 
 two tables of the testimony in 
 his hand, written on both sides, 
 and made by the work of God : 
 the writing also of God was 
 graven in the tables. And 
 when he came nigh to the 
 camp, he saw the calf, and the 
 dances : and being very angry, 
 he threw the tables out of his 
 hand, and broke them at the 
 foot of the mount : and after 
 this God said : Hew thee two 
 tables of stone like unto the 
 former, and I will write upon 
 them the words which were in 
 the tables, which thou brokest. 
 Then he cut out two tables of 
 stone, such as had been before : 
 and rising very early he went 
 
 up into the mount Sinai, as the 
 Lord had commanded him, car- 
 rying with him the tables. 
 And when the Lord was come 
 down in a cloud, Moses stood 
 with him, calling upon the 
 name of the Lord. And the 
 Lord said to Moses : Write 
 thee these words by which I 
 have made a covenant both 
 with thee and with Israel. 
 And he was there with the 
 Lord forty days and forty 
 nights : he neither ate bread 
 nor drank water, and he wrote 
 upon the tables the ten words 
 of the covenant. And when 
 Moses came down from the 
 mount Sinai, he held the two 
 tables of the testimony, and he 
 knew not that his face was 
 horned from the conversation 
 of the Lord. 
 
 LESSON THIRTIETH. 
 
 ON THE FIRST COMMANDMENT. 
 
 Q. WTiat is the first Com- 
 mandment ? 
 
 (Ex. 20. A. M. 2513.) The 
 Lord spoke all these words : I 
 am the Lord thy God, who 
 brou«:ht thee ont of the land of 
 Egypt, out of house of bond- 
 age. Thou shalt not have 
 strange gods before me. Thou 
 shalt not make to thyself a 
 graven thing, nor the likeness 
 of anything that is in heaven 
 above, or in the earth beneath, 
 nor of those things that are in 
 the waters under the earth. 
 
 Thou shalt not adore them, nor 
 serve them : I am the Lord thy 
 God, mighty, jealous, visiting 
 the iniquity of the fathers upon 
 the children, unto the third and 
 fourth generation of tliem that 
 hate me : and shewing mercy 
 unto thousands to them that 
 love me. and keep my com- 
 mandments. 
 
 Q. How does the first Com- 
 mandment help us to keep 
 the great Commandment of 
 the love of God ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 72, No. 7. 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 Q. How do we adore Qod ? 
 
 See"L. of C.,"p. 88, No.27. 
 
 Q. How may the first Com- 
 mandment be broken ? 
 
 (Acts 12. A. D. 42.) Upon a 
 day appointed, Herod being ar- 
 rayed in kingly apparel, sat in 
 the judgment-seat, and made | 
 an oration to them. And the ' 
 people made acclamation, say- 1 
 ing: It is the voice of a God,! 
 
 and not of a man. And forth- 
 
 with an 
 
 Angel 
 
 of the Lord 
 
 struck him, because he had not 
 given the honour to God : and 
 being eaten up by worms, he 
 gave up the ghost. 
 
 (Acts 14. A. D. 43.) There 
 sat a certain man at Lystra, 
 impotent in his feet, a cripple 
 from his mother's womb, who 
 never had walked. This same 
 heard Paul speaking. Who 
 looking upon him, and seeing 
 that he had faith to be healed, 
 said with a loud voice : Stand 
 upright on thy feet. And he 
 leaped up, and walked. And 
 when tlie multitudes had seen 
 w4iat Paul had done, they lifted 
 up their voice in the Lycaonian 
 tongue, sa3nng : The gods are 
 come down to us in the likeness 
 of men ; and they called Bar- 
 nabas, Jupiter : but Paul, Mer- 
 cury"; because he was chief 
 speaker. The priest also of 
 Jupiter that was before the 
 city, bringing oxen and gar- 
 lands before the gate, would 
 have offered sacrifice with the 
 people. Which, when the apos- 
 tles Barnabas and Paul had 
 heard, rending their clothes, 
 
 thej^ leaped out among the peo- 
 ple crying, and saying : Ye 
 men, why do ye these things? 
 We also are mortal men like 
 unto you. 
 
 (Jiidg.lT. A. M. 2886.) There 
 was at that time a man of 
 mount Ephraim whose name 
 was Michas, who said to his 
 mother: The eleven hundred 
 pieces of silver, which thou 
 hadst put aside for thyself, and 
 concerning which thou didst 
 swear in my hearing, behold I 
 have, and they are with me. 
 And she said to him : Blessed 
 be my son by the Lord. So he 
 restored them to his mother, 
 who said to him : I have con- 
 secrated and vowed this silver 
 to the Lord, that my son may 
 receive it at my hand, and 
 make a graven and a molten 
 god^ so now I deliver it to thee. 
 And he restored them to his 
 mother : and she took too hun- 
 dred pieces of silver and gave 
 them to the silversmith, to 
 make of them a graven and a 
 molten god, which was in the 
 house of Michas. There was 
 also another young man of 
 Bethlehem Juda, of the kin- 
 dred thereof: and he was a Le- 
 vite, and dwelt there. Now he 
 went out from the city of Beth- 
 lehem, and desired to sojourn 
 wheresoever he should find it 
 convenient for him. And when 
 he was come to mount Eph- 
 raim, as he was on his journey, 
 and had turned aside a little in- 
 to the house of Michas, he 
 was asked by him whence he 
 came. And he answered : I am 
 
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 a Levite of Betblebem Juda, 
 and I am going to dwell where 
 I can, and where I shall find a 
 ])lace to my advantage. And 
 Miebas said : Stay with me, 
 and be unto me a lather and a 
 .priest, and I will give thee 
 every year ten pieces of silver, 
 and a double suit of apparel, 
 and thy victuals. He was con- 
 tent, and abode with the man, 
 and was unto him as one of bis 
 sons. There went therefore of 
 the kindred of Dan, to wit, 
 from Saraa and Esthaol, six 
 hundred men, furnished with 
 arms for war, and going up 
 they lodged in Gariathiarim of 
 Juda: which place from that 
 time is called the camp of Dan, 
 and is behind Gariathiarim. 
 From thence they passed into 
 mount Ephraim. And when 
 they were come to the house of 
 Michas, and when they had 
 turned a little aside, they went 
 into the house of the young 
 man the Levite, who was in the 
 bouse of Michas : and they 
 sainted him with words of 
 peace. And the six hundred 
 men stood before the door, ap- 
 pointed with their arms. So 
 they that were gone in took 
 away the graven thing, the 
 ephod, and the idols, and the 
 molten god. And the priest 
 said to them : What are you 
 doing? And they said to him : 
 Hold tb}^ peace and put thy 
 finger on thy mouth and come 
 with us, that we may have thee 
 for a father, and a priest. 
 Whether is better for thee, to 
 be a priest in the house of one 
 
 man, or in a tribe and family in 
 Israel ? W^hen he had heard* 
 this, he agreed to their words, 
 and took the ephod, and the 
 idols, and the graven god^ and 
 departed with them. And the 
 six hundred men took the 
 priest, and the things we spoke 
 of before, and came to Lais to 
 a people that was quiet and se- 
 cure, and smote them with the 
 edge of the sword : and the 
 city was burnt with fire. 
 
 Q. Do those "who make use 
 of spells and charms, or 
 ■who believe in dreams, in 
 mediums, spiritists, fortune- 
 tellers, and the like, sin 
 against the first Command- 
 ment? 
 
 (Gen. 40, 41. A. M. 228Y.) 
 After this, it came to pass, that 
 two servants, the butler and the 
 baker, of the king of Egypt, 
 offended their lord. And Pha- 
 rao being angry with them 
 (now the one was chief butler, 
 the other chief baker) he sent 
 them to the prison of the com- 
 mander of the soldiers, in which 
 Joseph also was prisoner. But 
 the keeper of the prison deliv- 
 ered them to Joseph, and he 
 served them. Some little time 
 passed, and they were kept in 
 custody. And they both 
 dreamed a dream the same 
 night, according to the inter- 
 pretation agreeing to them- 
 selves: and when Joseph was 
 come in to them in the morn- 
 ing, and saw them sad, he 
 asked them, saying; Why is 
 your countenance sadder to-day 
 than usual? They answered: 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 We have dreamed a dream, 
 and there is nobody to interpret 
 it to us. And Joseph said to 
 them : Doth not interpretation 
 belong to God ? Tell me what 
 you have dreamed? The chief 
 butler first told his dream : I 
 saw before me a vine, on which 
 were three branches, which by 
 little and little sent out buds, 
 and after the blossoms brought 
 forth ripe grapes ; and the cup 
 of Pharao was in my hand : 
 and I took the grapes, and 
 pressed them into the cup 
 which I hehl, and I gave the 
 cup to Pharao. Joseph an- 
 swered : This is the interpreta- 
 tion of the dream : The three 
 branches are yet three days : 
 after which Pharao will remem- 
 ber thy service, and will restore 
 thee to thy former place : and 
 thou shalt present him the cup 
 according to thy office, as be- 
 fore thou wast wont to do. Only 
 remember me, when it shall be 
 well with thee, and do me this 
 kindness : to put Pharao in 
 mind to take me out of this 
 prison : for I was stolen away out 
 of the land of the Hebrews, and 
 here w^ithont any fault was cast 
 into the dungeon. The chief 
 baker seeing tliat he had wisely 
 interpreted the dream, said : I 
 also dreamed a dream : That I 
 had three baskets of meal upon 
 my head : and that in one bas- 
 ket which was uppermost, I 
 carried all meats that are made 
 by the art of baking, and that 
 the birds ate out of it. Joseph 
 answered : This is the interpre- 
 tation of the dream : The three 
 
 baskets, are yet three days : 
 after which Pharao will take 
 thy head from thee, and hang 
 thee on a cross, and the birds 
 shall tear thy flesh. The third 
 day after this was the birthday 
 of Pharao : and he made a great 
 feast for his servants, and at 
 the banquet remembered the 
 chief butler, and the chief baker, 
 and he restored the one to his 
 place to present him the cup : 
 the other he hanged on a gib- 
 bet, that the truth of the inter- 
 preter might be shewn. But 
 the chief butler, when things 
 prospered with him, forgot his 
 interpreter. After two years 
 Pharao had a dream. He 
 thought he stood by the river, 
 out of which came up seven 
 kine, very beautiful and fat : 
 and they fed in marshy places. 
 Other seven also came up out 
 of the river, ill-favoured, and 
 lean fleshed : and they fed on 
 the very bank of the river, in 
 green places : and they de- 
 voured them, whose bodies were 
 very beautiful and well condi- 
 tioned. So Pharao awoke. He 
 slept again, and dreamed an- 
 other dream : Seven ears of 
 corn came up upon one stalk 
 full and fair : then seven other 
 ears sprung up thin and blasted, 
 and devoured all the beauty of 
 the former. Pharao awaked 
 after his rest : and when morn- 
 ing was come, being struck 
 with fear, he sent to all the in- 
 terpreters of Egjq^t, and to all 
 the wise men : and they being 
 called for, he told them his 
 dream, and there w^as not any 
 
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 one that could interpret it. 
 Tlien at length the chief butler 
 remembering, said : There was 
 a young man a Hebrew, serv- 
 ant to the captain of the sol- 
 diers : to whom we told our 
 dreams, and we heard what af- 
 terwards the event of the thing 
 proved to be so. For I was re- 
 stored to my office : and he was 
 hanged upon a gibbet. Forth- 
 with at the king's command, 
 Joseph was brought out of the 
 prison, and they shaved him, 
 and changing his apparel, 
 brought him in to him. Joseph 
 answered : The king's dream is 
 one : God hath shewn to Pha- 
 rao what he is about to do. 
 The seven beautiful kine, and 
 the seven full ears, are seven 
 years of plenty : and both con- 
 tain the same meaning of the 
 dream. And the seven lean 
 and thin kine that came up af- 
 ter them, and the seven thin 
 ears that were blasted with the 
 burning wind, are seven years 
 of famine to come. And Pha- 
 rao said to Joseph : Behold, I 
 have appointed thee over the 
 whole land of Egypt. And he 
 took his ring from his own 
 hand, and gave it into his hand : 
 and he put upon him a robe of 
 silk, and put a chain of gold 
 about his neck. And he made 
 him go up into his second char- 
 iot, the crier proclaiming that 
 all should bow their knee be- 
 fore him, and that they should 
 know he was made governor 
 over the whole land of Egypt. 
 And the king said to Joseph : 
 I am Pharao ; without thy com- 
 
 mandment no man shall move 
 hand or foot in all the land 
 of Egypt. And he turned his 
 name, and called him in the 
 Egyptian tongue the saviour of 
 the world. 
 
 (Ex. 7. A. M. 2513.) The 
 Lord said to Moses and Aaron : 
 When Pharao shall say to you, 
 shew signs : thou shalt say to 
 Aaron : Take thy rod, and cast 
 it down before Pharao, and it 
 shall be turned into a serpent. 
 So Moses and Aaron went in 
 unto Pharao, and did as the 
 Lord had commanded. And 
 Aaron took the rod before 
 Pharao, and his servants, and it 
 was turned into a serpent. And 
 Pharao called the wise men and 
 the magicians : and they also 
 by Egyptian enchantments and 
 certain secrets did in like man- 
 ner, but Aaron's rod devoured 
 theirs. 
 
 (Deut. 18.) When thou art 
 come into the land which the 
 Lord thy God shall give thee, 
 beware lest thou have a mind 
 to imitate the abominations of 
 those nations. Neither let there 
 be found among you any one 
 that shall expiate his son or 
 daughter, making them to pass 
 through the fire : or that con- 
 sulteth soothsayers, or observ- 
 eth dreams and omens, neither 
 let there be an}'^ wizard, nor 
 charmer, nor any one that con- 
 sulteth pythonic spirits, or for- 
 tune-tellers, or that seeketh the 
 truth from the dead. For the 
 Lord abhorreth all these things, 
 and for these abominations he 
 will destroy them at thy com- 
 
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 ing. And if in silent thought 
 thou answer : How shall I 
 know the word that the Lord 
 hath not spoken? Thou shalt 
 have this sign: Whatsoever 
 that same prophet foretelleth in 
 the name of the Lord, and it 
 Cometh not to pass : that thing 
 the Lord hath not spoken, but 
 the prophet hath forged it by 
 the pride of his mind : and 
 therefore thou shalt not fear 
 him. 
 
 (Deut. 13.) If there rise in 
 the midst of thee a prophet or 
 one that saith he hath dreamed 
 a dream, and he foretell a sign 
 and a wonder, and that come to 
 pass which he spoke, and he say 
 to thee : Let us go and follow 
 strange gods, which thou know- 
 est not, and let us serve them : 
 Thou shalt not hear the words 
 of that prophet or dreamer : for 
 the Lord your God trieth 3^ou, 
 that it may appear whether you 
 love him with all yovw heart, 
 and with all your soul, or no. 
 Follow the Lord 3'our God, and 
 fear him, and keep his com- 
 mandments, and hear his voice : 
 him you shall serve, and to him 
 you shall -cleave. And that 
 prophet or forger of dreams 
 shall be slain : because he spoke 
 to draw you away from the 
 Lord your God. 
 
 (I. Kings 28. A. M. 2949.) 
 Saul saw the army of the Phil- 
 istines, and was afraid, and his 
 heart was very much dismayed. 
 And he consulted the Lord, and 
 he answered him not, neither 
 by dreams, nor by priests, nor 
 by prophets. And Saul said to 
 
 his servants : Seek me a woman 
 that hath a divining spirit, and 
 I will go to her, and inquire by 
 her. And his servants said to 
 him: There is a woman that 
 hath a divining spirit at Endor. 
 Then he disguised himself: and 
 put on other clothes, and he 
 went, and two men with him, 
 and they came to the woman by 
 night. And the woman said to 
 him : Whom shall I bring up 
 to thee? And he said. Bring 
 me up Samuel. And when the 
 woman saw Samuel, she cried 
 out with a loud voice, and said 
 to Saul : Why hast thou de- 
 ceived me? for thou art Saul. 
 And the king said to her : Fear 
 not : what hast thou seen ? And 
 the woman said to Saul : I saw 
 gods ascending out of the earth. 
 And he said to her : What form 
 is he of? And she said : An 
 old man cometli up, and he is 
 covered with a mantle. And 
 Saul understood that it was 
 Samuel, and he bowed himself 
 with his face to the ground, and 
 adored. And Samuel said to 
 Saul : Why hast thou dis- 
 turbed my rest, that I should 
 be brought up ? And Saul said, 
 I am in great distress : for the 
 Philistines fight against me, 
 and God is departed from me, 
 and would not hear me, neither 
 by the hand of prophets, nor 
 by dreams : therefore I have 
 called thee, that thou may est 
 show me what I shall do. And 
 Samuel said : Why askest thou 
 me, seeing the Lord has de- 
 parted from thee, and is gone 
 over to thy rival : for the 
 
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 Lord will do to thee as he spoke 
 by me, and he will rend thy 
 kingdom out of thy hand, and 
 will give it to thy neighbour 
 David. 
 
 (lY. Kings 1. A. M. 3108.) 
 Ochozias fell through the lat- 
 tices of his upper chamber which 
 he had in Samaria, and was 
 sick : and he sent messengers, 
 saying to them : Go, consult 
 Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, 
 whether I shall recover of this 
 my illness. And an angel of 
 the Lord spoke to Elias the 
 Thesbite, saying : Arise, and 
 go up to meet the messengers 
 of the king of Samaria, and 
 say to them : Is there not a 
 God in Israel, that ye go to 
 consult Beelzebub the God of 
 Accaron ? Wherefore thus saith 
 the Lord: From the bed, on 
 which thou art gone up, thou 
 shalt not come down, but thou 
 shalt surely die. And Elias 
 went away. And the messen- 
 gers turned back to Ochozias. 
 And he said to them: Why 
 are you come back? But they 
 answered him : A man met us, 
 and said to us : Go, and re- 
 turn to the king, that sent you, 
 and you shall say to him : Thus 
 saith the Lord : Is it because 
 there was no God in Israel that 
 thou sendest to Beelzebub the 
 God of Accaron ? And he said : 
 It is Elias the Thesbite. And 
 he sent to him a captain of fifty, 
 and the fifty men that were 
 under him. And he went np to 
 him, and as he was sitting on 
 the top of a hill, said to him : 
 Man of God, the king hath 
 
 commanded that thou come 
 down. And Elias answering, 
 said to the captain of fifty : If 
 I be a man of God, let fire 
 come down from heaven, and 
 consume thee, and thy fifty. 
 And there came down fire from 
 heaven, and consumed him, and 
 the fifty that were with him. 
 And again he sent to him an- 
 other captain of fifty men, and 
 his fifty with him. And he said 
 to him: Man of God, thus 
 saith the king : Make haste and 
 come down. Elias answering, 
 said : If I be a man of God, 
 let fire come down from heaven, 
 and consume thee and thy fifty. 
 And fire came down from 
 heaven, and consumed him and 
 his fifty. Again he sent a third 
 captain of fifty men, and the 
 fifty that were with him. And 
 when he was come, he fell upon 
 his knees, before Elias, and be- 
 sought him and said : Man of 
 God, despise not my life, and 
 the lives of thy servants that 
 are with me. Behold fire came 
 down from heaven, and con- 
 sumed the two first captains of 
 fifty men, and the fifties that 
 were with them : but now I be- 
 seech thee to spare my life. 
 And the angel of the Lord spoke 
 to Elias, saying : Go down 
 with him, fear not. He arose 
 therefore, and went down with 
 him to the king, and said to 
 him: Thus saith the Lord: 
 Because thou hast sent messen- 
 gers to consult Beelzebub the 
 god of Accaron, as though there 
 were not a God in Israel, of 
 whom thou mightest inquire 
 
160 
 
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 the word, therefore from the 
 bed on which thou art gone up, 
 thou shalt not come down, but 
 thou shalt surely die. So he 
 died according to the word of 
 the Lord which Elias spoke. 
 
 (Eccltus. 34.) The hopes of 
 a man that is void of under- 
 standing are vain and deceit- 
 ful ; and dreams lift up fools. 
 The man that giveth heed to 
 lying visions, is like to him 
 that catcheth at a shadow, and 
 followeth after the wind. The 
 vision of dreams is the re- 
 semblance of one thing to an- 
 other : as when a man's likeness 
 is before the face of a man. 
 What can be made clean by the 
 unclean ? and what truth can 
 come from that which is false? 
 Deceitful divinations and ly- 
 ing omens and the dreams of 
 evil doers, are vanit3\ And 
 the heart fancieth as that of a 
 woman in travail : except it be 
 a vision sent forth from the 
 most High, set not thy heart 
 upon them. For dreams have 
 deceived man}^, and they have 
 failed that put their trust in 
 them. 
 
 Q. Are sins against faith, 
 hope, and charity also sins 
 against the first Command- 
 ment? 
 
 See"L. ofC," p. 104, No. 6. 
 
 Q. Ho-w does a person sin 
 against faith ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 38, No. 30; p. 71, No. 6. 
 
 (Acts 13. A. D. 42.) Ser- 
 gius Faulus, a prudent man, 
 sending for Barnabas and Saul, 
 desired to hear the word of 
 
 God. But Elymas the magician 
 (for so his name is interpreted) 
 withstood them, seeking to turn 
 away the proconsul from the 
 faith. Then Saul, otherwise 
 Paul, filled with the Holy 
 Ghost, looking upon him, said : 
 full of all guile, and of all de- 
 ceit, child of the devil, enem^'- 
 of all justice, thou ceasest not 
 to pervert the right ways of the 
 Lord. And now behold, the 
 hand of the Lord is upon thee, 
 and thou shalt be blind, not 
 seeing the sun for a time. And 
 immediatelj- there fell a mist 
 and darkness upon him, and 
 going about, he sought some one 
 to lead him by the hand. Then 
 the proconsul, when he had 
 seen what was done, believed, 
 admiring at the doctrine of the 
 Lord. 
 
 Q. Ho-w do -we fail to try to 
 know what G-od has taught ? 
 
 See"L of C," p. 88, No. 32. 
 
 (II. Tim. 2.) Avoid foolish 
 and unlearned questions, know- 
 ing that they beget strifes. But 
 the servant of the Lord must 
 not wrangle: but be mild to- 
 wards all men, apt to teach, 
 patient, with modesty admon- 
 ishing them that resist the 
 truth : if peradventure God may 
 give them repentance to know 
 the truth, and they may recover 
 themselves from the snares of 
 the devil, by whom they are 
 held captive at his will. 
 
 (III. Kings 10. A.M. 3023.) 
 The queen of Saba, having 
 heard of the fame of Solomon 
 in the name of the Lord, came 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
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 to try bim with bard questions. 
 And entering into Jerusalem 
 with a great train, and riches, 
 and camels that carried spices, 
 and an immense quantity of 
 gold, and precious stones, she 
 came to king Solomon, and 
 spoke to him all that she had 
 in her heart. And Solomon 
 informed her of all the things 
 she proposed to him : there was 
 not any word the king was ig- 
 norant of, and which he could 
 not answer her. And when the 
 queen of Saba saw all the wis- 
 dom of Solomon, and the bouse 
 which he had built, and the 
 meat of his table, and the apart- 
 ments of his servants, and the 
 order of his ministers, and their 
 apparel, and tiie cup-bearers, 
 and the holocaust, which he 
 offered in the house of the 
 Lord : she had no longer any 
 spirit in her, and she said to 
 the king : The report is true, 
 which I heard in my own coun- 
 try, concerning thy words, and 
 concerning thy wisdom. And I 
 did not believe them that told 
 me, till I came myself, and saw 
 with my own eyes, and have 
 found that the half hath not 
 been told me ; thy wisdom and 
 thy works, exceed the fame 
 which I heard. Blessed are 
 thy men, and blessed are thy 
 servants, who stand before thee 
 always, and hear thy wisdom. 
 Blessed be the Lord thy God, 
 whom thou hast pleased, and 
 who hath set thee upon the 
 throne of Israel, because the 
 Lord hath loved Israel for ever, 
 and hath appointed thee king, 
 
 11 
 
 to do judgment and justice. 
 And she gave the king a hun- 
 dred and twenty talents of 
 gold, and of spices a very great 
 store, and precious stones : 
 there was brought no more such 
 abundance of spices as these 
 which the queen of Saba gave 
 to king Solomon. 
 
 Q. "Who are they "who do not 
 believe all that God has 
 taught ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 2^ Nos. 7,8: p. 60, No. 
 20; p. 64, No. 26; p. 69, No. 40*. 
 
 Q. "Who are they who neg- 
 lect to profess their belief 
 in what G-od has taught ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 38, No. 31 ; p. 93, No. 38. 
 
 Q. Can they who fail to pro- 
 fess their faith in the true 
 Church in which they be- 
 lieve expect to be saved 
 while in that state ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 39, No. 33. 
 
 (Rom. 10.) If thou con- 
 fess with thy mouth the Lord 
 Jesus, and believe in thy heart 
 that God hath raised him up 
 from the dead, thou shalt be 
 saved. For, with the heart, we 
 beli^eve unto justice ; but, with 
 the mouth, confession is made 
 unto salvation. 
 
 Q. Are we obliged to make 
 open profession of our 
 faith ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 65, No. 29. 
 
 (II. Kings 6. A. M. 2960.) 
 When the ark of the Lord was 
 come into the city of David, 
 Michol the daughter of Saul, 
 looking out through a window, 
 saw king David leaping and 
 
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 dancing before the Lord : and 
 she despised him in her heart. 
 And they brought the ark of 
 the Lord, and set it in its place 
 in the midst of the tabernacle, 
 which David had pitched for it: 
 and David offered holocausts, 
 and peace-offerings before the 
 Lord. And when he had made 
 an end of offering holocausts 
 and peace-offerings, he blessed 
 the people in the name of the 
 Lord of hosts. And he dis- 
 tributed to all the multitude of 
 Israel, both men and women, to 
 every one, a cake of bread, and 
 a piece of roasted beef, and line 
 flour fried with oil : and all the 
 people departed every one to 
 his house. And David returned 
 to bless his own house : and 
 Michol the daughter of Saul 
 coming out to meet David, 
 said : How glorious was the 
 king of Israel to-day, uncover- 
 ing himself before the hand- 
 maids of his servants, and was 
 naked, as if one of the buffoons 
 should be naked. And David 
 said to Michol: Before the 
 Lord, who chose me rather than 
 thy father, and than all his 
 house, and commanded me to be 
 ruler over the people of the 
 Lord in Israel, I will both play 
 and make myself meaner than 
 I liave done : and I will be little 
 in my own eyes : and with the 
 handmaids of wiiom thou speak- 
 est, I shall apy^ear more glori- 
 ous. Therefore Michol the 
 daughter of Saul had no child 
 to the day of her death. 
 
 Q. "Which are the sins against 
 hope? 
 
 (Rom. 2.) Thinkest thou 
 this, man, that judgest them 
 who do such things, and dost 
 the sanle, that thou shalt es- 
 cape the judgment of God ? Or 
 despisest thou the riches of his 
 goodness, and patience, and 
 long-suffering ? Knowest thou 
 not, that the benignity of God 
 leadeth thee to penance? But 
 according to thy hardness and 
 impenitent heart, thou treasur- 
 est up to thyself wrath, against 
 the day of wrath, and revela- 
 tion of the just judgment of 
 God, who will render to every 
 man according to his works. 
 
 Q. What is persumption ? 
 
 (Eccltus. 5.) Follow not in 
 thy strength the desires of thy 
 heart : and say not : How 
 mighty am I? and who shall 
 bring me under for my deeds ? 
 for God will surely take re- 
 venge. Say not : I, have sinned, 
 and what harm hath befallen 
 me ? for the most High is a pa- 
 tient rewarder. Be not with- 
 out fear about sin forgiven, and 
 add not sin upon sin : and say 
 not : The mercy of the Lord is 
 great, he will have mercy on 
 the multitude of my sins. For 
 mercy and wrath quickly come 
 from him, and his wrath look- 
 eth upon sinners. Delay not 
 to be converted to the Lord, 
 and defer it not from day to 
 day. For his wrath shall come 
 on a sudden, and in the time of 
 vengeance he will destroy thee. 
 
 Q. "What is despair ? 
 
 SeCL. of C.,"p.lll, No. 8. 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 163 
 
 (Ex. 4. A. M. 2513.) Moses 
 said : I beseech thee, Lord, I 
 am not eloquent from yesterda}^ 
 and the day before: and since 
 thou hast spoken to thy serv- 
 ant, I have more impediment 
 and slowness of tongue. The 
 Lord said to him : Who made 
 man's mouth ? or who made the 
 dumb and the deaf, the seeing 
 and the blind ? did not I. Go 
 therefore, and I will be in thy 
 mouth : and I will teach thee 
 what thou shalt speak. But he 
 said : I beseech thee. Lord, send 
 whom thou wilt send. The 
 Lord being angry at Moses, 
 said : Aaron the Levite is thy 
 brother, I know that he is elo- 
 quent : behold he comet h forth 
 to meet thee, and seeing thee 
 shall be glad at heart. Speak 
 to him, and put my words in 
 bis mouth : and I will be in thy 
 mouth, and in his mouth, and 
 will show you what you must 
 do. He sjiall speak in thy 
 stead to the people, and shall 
 be thy mouth : but thou shalt 
 be to him in those things that 
 pertain to God. 
 
 (lY. Kings 6-7. A. M. 3117.) 
 There was a great famine in 
 Samaria : and so long did the 
 siege continue, till the head of 
 an ass was sold for fourscore 
 pieces of silver. And Eliseus 
 said : Hear ye the word of the 
 Lord : Thus saith the Lord : 
 To-morrow about this time a 
 bushel of fine flour shall be sold 
 for a stater, and two bushels of 
 barley for a stater, in the gate 
 of Samaria. Then one of the 
 lords, upon whose hand the 
 
 king leaned, answering the man 
 of God, said : If the Lord 
 should make flood-gates in 
 heaven, can that possibly be 
 which tho\i sayest? And he 
 said : Thou shalt see it with 
 thy eyes, but shalt not eat 
 thereof. Now the Lord had 
 made them hear, in the camp of 
 Syria, the noise of chariots, 
 and of horses, and of a very 
 great army, and the}^ said one 
 to another : Behold the king of 
 Israel hath hired against us the 
 kings of the Hethites, and of 
 the Eg3^ptians, and they are 
 come upon us. Wherefore they 
 arose, and fled away in the dark, 
 and left their tents, and their 
 horses and asses in the camp, 
 and fled, desiring to save their 
 lives. And the people going 
 out pillaged the camp of the 
 Syrians : and a bushel of fine 
 flour was sold for a stater, and 
 two bushels of barley for a 
 stater, according to the word 
 of the Lord. And the king ap- 
 pointed that lord on whose 
 hand he leaned, to stand at the 
 gate : and the people trod upon 
 him in the entrance of the gate ; 
 and he died, as the man of God 
 had said, when the king came 
 down to him. And it came to 
 pass according to the word of 
 the man of God, which he spoke 
 to the king, when he said : Two 
 bushels of barlej^ shall be for a 
 stater, and a bushel of fine flour 
 for a stater, at this very time 
 to-morrow in the gate of Sa- 
 maria. When that lord an- 
 swered the man of God, and 
 said : Although the Lord should 
 
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 CATECHIS3I, 
 
 make flood-gates in heaven, 
 could this come to pass which 
 thou sayest? And he said to 
 him : Thou shalt see with thy 
 eyes, and shalt not eat thereof. 
 And so it fell out to him as it 
 
 was foretold, and the people 
 trod upon him in the gate, and 
 be died. 
 
 Q. Hew do "we sin against 
 the love of God ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 69, No. 17. 
 
 LESSON THIRTY-FIRST. 
 
 THE FIRST COMMANDMENT — ON THE HONOR AND INVOCATION OF 
 
 SAINTS. 
 
 Q. Does the first Command- 
 ment forbid the honoring of 
 the saints ? 
 
 (Acts 5. A. D. 33.) Now the 
 multitude of men and women 
 who believed in the Lord, was 
 more increased insomuch that 
 they brought forth the sick into 
 the streets, and laid them on 
 beds and couches, that when 
 Peter came, his shadow at the 
 least, might overshadow any of 
 them, and they might be de- 
 livered from their infirmities. 
 
 Q. Does the first Oommand- 
 ment forbid us to pray to 
 the saints ? 
 
 (Job 5.) Call now if there 
 be any that will answer thee, 
 and turn to some of the saints. 
 
 Q. "What do we mean by 
 praying to the saints ? 
 
 (Esther 1. A. M. 3485.) In 
 the days of Assuerus, the city 
 Susan was the capital of his 
 kingdom. Now in the third 
 year of his reign he made a 
 great feast for all the princes, 
 and for his servants, also Vasthi 
 the queen made a feast for the 
 women in the palace, where 
 
 king Assuerus was used to 
 dwell. Now on the seventh 
 day, when the king was merry, 
 and after very much drinking 
 was well warmed with wine, he 
 commanded, the seven servants 
 that served in his presence, to 
 bring in queen Yasthi before 
 the king, with the crown set 
 upon her head, to shew her 
 beautj'' to all the people and 
 the princes : for she was ex- 
 ceeding beautiful. But she re- 
 fused, and would not come at 
 the king's commandment, which 
 he had signified to her by these 
 servants. Whereupon the king, 
 being angr}^, and inflamed with 
 a very great fury, ordered : that 
 Yasthi come in no more to the 
 king, but another, that is better 
 than her, be made queen in her 
 place. There was a man in the 
 city of Susan, a Jew, named 
 Mardochai, tlie son of Jair, the 
 son of Semei, the son of Cis, of 
 the race of Jemini, who had 
 been carried away from Jeru- 
 salem at the time that Nabucho- 
 flonogor king of Babylon car- 
 ried away Jechonias king of 
 
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 Juda, and he had brought up 
 his brother'8 daughter Edissa, 
 who by another name was called 
 Esther : now she had lost both 
 her parents : and was exceeding 
 fair and beautiful. And her 
 father and mother being dead, 
 Mardochai adopted her for his 
 daughter. And the king loved 
 her more than all the women^ 
 and she had favour and kind- 
 ness before him above all the 
 women, and he set the royal 
 crown on her head, and made 
 her queen instead of Yasthi. 
 And she would not tell him 
 her people nor her country. 
 For Mardochai had charged her 
 to say nothing at all of that : 
 and he walked every day before 
 the court of the house, in which 
 the chosen virgins were kept, 
 having a care for Esther's wel- 
 fare, and desiring to know what 
 would befall her. Now Mar- 
 dochai the son of Jair, had a 
 dream. And this was his 
 dream : Behold there were 
 voices, and tumults, and thun- 
 ders, and earthquakes, and a 
 disturbance upon the earth. 
 And behold two great dragons 
 came forth ready to fight one 
 against another.. And at their 
 cry all nations were stirred up 
 to fight against the nation of 
 the just. And that was a day 
 of darkness and danger, of trib- 
 ulation and distress, and great 
 fear upon the earth. And the 
 nation of the just was troubled 
 fearing their own evils, and was 
 prepared for death. And they 
 cried to God : and as they were 
 crying, a little fountain grew 
 
 into a very great river, and 
 abounded into many waters. 
 The light and the sun rose up, 
 and the humble were exalted, 
 and they devoured the glorious. 
 And when Mardochai had seen 
 this, and arose out of his bed, 
 he was thinking what God 
 would do : and he kept it fixed 
 in his mind, desirous to know 
 what the dream should signify. 
 At the time therefore, when 
 Mardochai abode at the king's 
 gate, two of the king's servants, 
 who were porters, and presided 
 in the first entry of the palace, 
 were angry : and they designed 
 to rise up against the king, and 
 to kill him. And Mardochai 
 had notice of it, and immedi- 
 ately he told it to queen Esther: 
 and she to the king in Mardo- 
 chai's name, who had reported 
 the thing unto her. It was in- 
 quired into, and found out : and 
 they were both hanged on a 
 gibbet. And it was put in the 
 histories, and recorded in the 
 chronicles before the king. 
 After these things, king Assu- 
 erus advanced A man, the son 
 of Amadathi, who was of the 
 race of A gag: and he set his 
 throne above all the princes 
 that were with him. And all 
 the king's servants, that were 
 at the doors of the palace, bent 
 their knees, and worshipped 
 A man : for so the emperor had 
 commanded them, only Mardo- 
 chai did not bend his knee, nor 
 worship him. Now when Aman 
 had heard this, and had proved 
 by experience that Mardochai 
 did not bend his knee to him, 
 
166 
 
 CA TECHISM. 
 
 nor worship bim, be was ex- 
 ceeding angr3^ And be count- 
 ed it nothing to lay his hands 
 upon Mardocbai alone : for be 
 bad heard that he was of the 
 nation of the Jews, and he 
 chose rather to destroy all 
 the nation of the Jews that 
 were in tbe kingdom of Assuer- 
 us. And A man said to kiug 
 Assuerus : Tbere is a people 
 scattered through all tbe prov- 
 inces of tby kingdom, and 
 separated one from another, 
 that use new laws and ceremo- 
 nies, and moreover despise the 
 king's ordinances : and thou 
 knowest very well that it is not 
 expedient for tby kingdom tbat 
 they sbould grow insolent b}' 
 impunity. And tbe king took 
 the ring that be used, from bis 
 own hand, and gave it to Aman, 
 tbe son of Amadathi of tbe 
 race of Agag, the enemy of tbe 
 Jews, and be said to him: As 
 to tbe money which thou prom- 
 ises t, keep it for thyself: and as 
 to tbe people do with tbem as 
 seemeth good to thee. And tbe 
 king's scribes were called in tbe 
 first month Nisan, on tbe tbir- 
 teenth day of tbe same month : 
 and tbey wrote, as Aman bad 
 commanded, to all tbe king's 
 lieutenants, and to tbe judges 
 of tbe provinces, and of divers 
 nations, as every nation could 
 read, and bear according to 
 tbeir different languages, in tbe 
 name of king Assuerus : and 
 tbe letters sealed with bis ring 
 were sent by the king's mes- 
 sengers to all provinces, to kill 
 and destroj'- all tbe Jews, both 
 
 young and old, little children, 
 and women, in one dav, tbat is, 
 on the thirteenth of tbe twelfth 
 month, which is called Adar, 
 and to make a spoil of their 
 goods. And wben Mardocbai 
 bad heard tbis, be sent word to 
 Esther, saying : Tbink not tbat 
 thou mayst save tby life onlj', 
 because tbou art in tbe king's 
 bouse, more tban all tbe Jews: 
 for if tbou wilt now bold tby 
 peace, tbe Jews sball be deliv- 
 ered by some otber occasion : 
 and tbou, and tby father's bouse 
 sball perish. And who know- 
 eth whether thou art not there- 
 fore come to tbe kingdom, tbat 
 tbou mightest be ready in such 
 a time as tbis? And Esther 
 sent to Mardocbai in these 
 words : Go, and gather together 
 all the Jews whom tbou sbalt 
 find in Susan, and pray ye for 
 me. Neither eat nor drink for 
 three days and three nights: 
 and I with m}' handmaids will 
 fast in like manner, and tben I 
 will go in to tbe king, against 
 tbe law, not being called, and 
 expose myself to death and to 
 danger. So Mardocbai went, 
 and did all tbat Esther bad 
 commanded him. And on tbe 
 tliird day Esther put on her 
 royal apparel, and stood in tbe 
 inner court of tbe king's bouse, 
 over-against tbe king's ball : 
 now he sat upon his throne in 
 tbe ball of the palace, over- 
 against tbe door of tbe house. 
 And wben be saw Esther tbe 
 queen standing, she pleased his 
 e3''es, and be held out toward 
 her the golden sceptre, which 
 
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 he held in his hand : and she 
 drew near, and kissed the top 
 of his sceptre. And the king 
 said to her; What wilt thou, 
 queen Esther? what is thy re- 
 quest ? if thou shouldst even 
 ask oue half of the kingdom, 
 it shall be given to thee. And 
 Esther answered: My petition 
 and request is this : if I have 
 found favour in the king's sight, 
 and if it please the king to 
 give nie what I ask, and to ful- 
 fil m}^ petition : let the king 
 and Aman come to the banquet 
 which I have prepared them, 
 and to-morrow I will open my 
 mind to the king. That night 
 the king passed without sleep, 
 and he commanded the histories 
 and chronicles of former times 
 to be brought him. And when 
 they were reading them before 
 him, they came to that place 
 where it was written, how 
 Mardochai had discovered the 
 treason of the servants, who 
 sought to kill king Assuerus. 
 And when the king heard this, 
 he said : What honour and re- 
 ward hath Mardochai received 
 for this fidelity ? His servants 
 and ministers said to him: He 
 hath received no reward at all. 
 And the king said immediately: 
 Who is in the court ? for Aman 
 was coming in to the inner 
 court of the king's house, to 
 speak to the king, that he 
 might order Mardochai to be 
 hanged upon the gibbet which 
 was prepared for him. The 
 servants answered: Aman 
 standeth in the court, and the 
 king said : Let him come in. 
 
 And when he was come in, he 
 said to him : What ought to be 
 done to the man whom the king 
 is desirous to honour? But 
 Aman thinking in his heart, 
 and supposing that the king 
 would honour no other but 
 himself, answered : The man 
 whom the king desireth to hon- 
 our, ought to be clothed with 
 the king's apparel, and to be 
 set upon the horse that the 
 king rideth upon, and to 
 have the royal crown upon 
 his head, and let the first 
 of the king's princes and nobles 
 hold his horse, and going 
 through the street of the city, 
 proclaim before him and say : 
 Thus shall he be honoured, 
 whom the king hath a mind to 
 honour. And the king said to 
 him : Make haste and take the 
 robe and the horse, and do as 
 thou hast spoken to Mardochai 
 the Jew, who sitteth before the 
 gates of the palace. Beware 
 thou pass over any of those 
 things which thou hast spoken. 
 So Aman took the robe and the 
 horse, and arra3'ing Mardochai 
 in the street of the city, and set- 
 ting him on the horse, went be- 
 fore him, and proclaimed: This 
 honour is he worthy of, whom 
 the king hath a mind to honour. 
 And Mardochai returned to the 
 palace gate : And Aman made 
 haste to go to his house, mourn- 
 ing and having his head covered: 
 and he told Zares his wife, and 
 his friends, all that had befallen 
 him. And the king said forth- 
 with : Call ye Aman quickly, 
 that he may obey Esther's will. 
 
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 So the king and Aman went in, 
 to drink with the queen. And 
 the king said to her again the 
 second day, after he was warm 
 with wine ; What is thy peti- 
 tion, Esther, that it may be 
 granted thee? and what wilt 
 thou have done : although thou 
 ask the half of my kingdom, 
 thou shalt have it. Then she 
 answered : If I have found fa- 
 vour in thy sight, O king, and 
 if it please thee, give me my 
 life for which I ask, and my 
 people for which I request. 
 For we are given up, I and my 
 people, to be destroyed, to be 
 slain, and to perish. And would 
 God we were sold for bond-men 
 and bond-women : the evil 
 might be borne with, and I 
 would have mourned in silence : 
 but now we have an enem}-, 
 whose cruelty redoundeth upon 
 the king. And king Assuerus 
 answered and said : Who is this, 
 and of what power, that he 
 should do these things? And 
 Esther said: It is this Aman 
 that is our adversary and most 
 wicked enemy. Aman hearing 
 this was forthwith astonished, 
 not being able to bear the coun- 
 tenance of the king and of the 
 queen. But the king being 
 angry rose up, and went from 
 the place of the banquet into 
 the garden set with trees. 
 Aman also rose up to entreat 
 Esther the queen for his life, 
 for he understood that evil was 
 prepared for him by the king. 
 And Harbona, one of the serv- 
 ants that stood waiting on the 
 king, said: Behold the gibbet 
 
 which he hath prepared for 
 Mardochai, who spoke for the 
 king, standeth in Aman's house, 
 being lift}' cubits high. And 
 the king said to him : Hang him 
 upon it. So Aman was hanged 
 on the gibbet, which he had 
 prepared for Mardochai : and 
 the king's wrath ceased. On 
 that day king Assuerus gave 
 the house of Aman, the Jews' 
 enemy, to queen Esther, and 
 Mardochai came in before the 
 king. For Esther had con- 
 fessed to him that he was her 
 uncle. And the king took the 
 ring which he had commanded 
 to be taken again from Aman, 
 and gave it to Mardochai. And 
 Esther set Mardochai over her 
 house. And not content with 
 these things, she fell down at 
 the king's feet and wept, and 
 speaking to him besought him, 
 that he would give orders that 
 the malice of Aman the Agag- 
 ite, and his most wicked de- 
 vices which he had invented 
 against the Jews, should be of 
 no effect. And the king gave 
 orders to them, to speak to the 
 Jews in every city, and to com- 
 mand them to gather them- 
 selves together, and to stand 
 for their lives, and to kill and 
 destroy all their enemies with 
 their wives. So the Jews made 
 a great slaughter of their en- 
 emies, and killed them, repay- 
 ing according to what they had 
 prepared to do to them : then 
 Mardochai said : God hath done 
 these things. I remember a 
 dream that I saw, which signi- 
 fied these same things: and 
 
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 nothing thereof hath failed. 
 The little fountain which grew 
 into a river, and was turned 
 into a light, and into the sun, 
 and abounded into many 
 waters, is Esther, whom the 
 king married, and made queen. 
 But the two dragons; are I, 
 and Aman. The nations that 
 were assembled : are they that 
 endeavoured to destroy the 
 name of the Jews. And my 
 nation: is Israel, who cried to 
 the Lord, and the Lord saved 
 his people : and he delivered us 
 from all evils, and hath wrought 
 great signs and wonders among 
 the nations. 
 
 Q. Hew do Tve know that the 
 saints hear us ? 
 
 (Acts 9. A. D. 39.) It 
 came to pass that Peter, as he 
 passed through, visiting all, 
 came to the saints who dwelt at 
 Lydda. And he found there a 
 certain man named Eneas, who 
 had kept his bed for eight 
 years, who was ill of the palsy. 
 And Peter said to him : Eneas, 
 the Lord Jesus Christ healeth 
 thee : arise, and make thy bed. 
 And immediately he arose. 
 
 (11. Mach. 15. A. M. 3843.) 
 Now when Nicanor understood 
 that Judas was in the places of 
 Samaria, he purposed to set 
 upon him with all violence on 
 the sabbath day. But Macli- 
 abeus ever trusted with all 
 hope that God would help them. 
 And he exhorted his people not 
 to fear the coming of the na- 
 tions, and told them a dream 
 worthy to be believed, whereby 
 
 he rejoiced them all. Now the 
 vision was in this manner: Onias 
 who had been high priest, a 
 good and virtuous man, modest 
 in his looks, gentle in his man- 
 ners, and graceful in his speech, 
 and who from a child was ex- 
 ercised in virtues, holding up 
 his hands, prayed for all the 
 people of the Jews : after this 
 there appeared also another 
 man, admirable for age, and 
 glor}^, and environed with great 
 beauty and majesty : then 
 Onias answering, said : This is 
 a lover of his brethren, and of 
 the people of Israel : this is he 
 that prayeth much for the peo- 
 ple, and for all the holy city, 
 Jeremias the prophet of God. 
 Whereupon Jeremias stretched 
 forth his right hand, and gave 
 to Judas a sword of gold, say- 
 ing : Take this holy sword a 
 gift from God, wherewith thou 
 shalt overthrow the adversaries 
 of my people Israel. 
 
 Q. "Why do we believe that 
 the saints ■will help us ? 
 
 (Gal. 3.) You are all the 
 children of God by faith, in 
 Christ Jesus. For as many of 
 you as have been baptized in 
 Christ, have put on Christ. 
 There is neither Jew nor 
 Greek : there is neither bond 
 nor free : there is neither male 
 nor female. For you are all 
 one in Christ Jesus. And if 
 you be Christ's, then are you 
 the seed of Abraham, heirs ac- 
 cording to the promise. 
 
 (Heb. 12.) You are not 
 come to a mountain that might 
 
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 be touched, and a burning fire, 
 and a whirlwind, and darkness, 
 and storm, and the sound of a 
 trumpet, and the voice of 
 words, which they that heard 
 excused themselves, that the 
 word might not be spoken to 
 them : for the}^ did not endure 
 that which was said : And if so 
 much as a beast shall touch the 
 mounts it shall be stoned. And 
 so terrible was that which was 
 seen , Moses said : / am fright- 
 ed, and tremble. But you are 
 come to mount Sion, and to the 
 city of the living God, the 
 heavenly Jerusalem, and to the 
 comi)any of many thousands of 
 angels, and to the church of 
 the first-born, who are written in 
 the heavens, and to God the 
 judge of all, and to the spirits 
 of the just made perfect, and 
 to Jesus the mediator of the 
 new testament, and to the 
 sprinkling of blood which 
 speaketh better than that of 
 Abel. 
 
 Q. How are the saints and 
 we members of the same 
 Church ? 
 
 (Rom. 12.) I beseech you, 
 brethren, by the mercy of God, 
 that you present your bodies a 
 living sacrifice, hol}^ pleasing 
 unto God, 3^our reasonable serv- 
 ice. And be not conformed to 
 this world; but be reformed in 
 the newness of your mind, that 
 you may prove what is the 
 good, and the acceptable, and 
 the perfect will of God. For I 
 say, by the grace that is given 
 me, to all that are among you, 
 
 not to be more wise than it be- 
 hoveth to be wise, but to be 
 wise unto sobriety, and accord- 
 ing as God hath divided to 
 everj^ one the measure of faith. 
 For as in one bod}^ we have 
 many members, but all the 
 members have not the same of- 
 fice : so we being many, are 
 one body in Christ, and every 
 one members one of another. 
 
 Q. "What is the communion 
 of the members of the 
 Church called ? 
 
 (Eph. 2.) Now therefore 
 3'ou are no more strangers and 
 foreigners ; but you are fellow- 
 citizens with the saints, and the 
 domestics of God, built upon 
 the foundation of the apostles 
 and prophets, Jesus Christ him- 
 self being the chief corner- 
 stone. 
 
 Q. "What does the com- 
 munion of saints mean ? 
 
 (I. Cor. 12.) As the body is 
 one, and hath many members ; 
 and all the members of the body, 
 whereas they are many, yet are 
 one body, so also is Christ. 
 For in one Spirit were we all 
 baptized into one bod}^ whether 
 Jews or Gentiles, whether bond 
 or free ; and in one Spirit we 
 have all been made to drink. 
 For the body also is not one 
 member, but man3\ If the 
 foot should say, because I am 
 not the hand, I am not of the 
 body ; is it therefore not of the 
 bod}^ ? And if the ear should 
 say, because I am not the e3*e, I 
 am not the body ; is it there- 
 
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 fore not of the body ? If the 
 whole body were the eye, where 
 would be the hearing ? If the 
 whole were hearing, where 
 would be the smelling? But 
 now God hath set the members 
 every one of them in the body 
 as it hath pleased him. And if 
 they all were one member, 
 where would be the body? But 
 now there are many members 
 indeed, yet one body. And the 
 eye cannot say to the hand : I 
 need not thy help ; nor again 
 the head to the feet : I have no 
 need of 3^ou. Yea, much more 
 those that seem to be the more 
 feeble members of the body, are 
 more necessary. 
 
 Q. 'What benefits are derived 
 from the coramunion of 
 saints ? 
 
 (Rom. 15.) I beseech you, 
 brethren, through our Lord 
 Jesus Christ, and by the char- 
 ity of the Holy Ghost, that you 
 help me in your prayers for 
 me to God, that I may be de- 
 livered from the unbelievers 
 that are in Judea, and that the 
 oblation of my service may be 
 acceptable in Jerusalem to the 
 saints. That I may come to 
 you with joy, by the will of 
 God, and may be refreshed 
 with you. Now the God of 
 peace be with you all. Amen. 
 
 (I. Tim. 2.) I desire there- 
 fore, first of all, that supplica- 
 tions, prayers, intercessions, 
 and thanksgivings be made for 
 all men : for kings, and for all 
 that are in high station : that 
 we may lead a quiet and a 
 
 peaceable life in all piety and 
 chastit3\ For this is good and 
 acceptable in the sight of God 
 our Saviour, who will have all 
 men to be saved, and to come 
 to the knowledge of the truth. 
 
 Q. Does the first Command- 
 ment forbid us to honour 
 relics ? 
 
 (Acts 19. A. D. 56.) God 
 wrought by the hand of Paul 
 more than common miracles. 
 So that even there were brought 
 from his body to the sick, hand- 
 kerchiefs and aprons, and the 
 diseases departed from them, 
 and the wicked spirits went 
 out of them. 
 
 Q. Does the first Command- 
 ment forbid the making of 
 images ? 
 
 (Dan. 3. A. M. 3417.) King 
 Nabuchodonosor made a statue 
 of gold, of sixty cubits high, 
 and six cubits broad, and he set 
 it up in the plain of Dura of 
 the province of Babj^lon. Then 
 Nabuchodonosor the king sent 
 to call together the nobles, the 
 magistrates, and the judges, 
 the captains, the rulers, and 
 governors, and all the chief 
 men of the provinces, to come 
 to the dedication of the statue 
 which king Nabuchodonosor had 
 set up. Then a herald cried 
 with a strong voice : To 3^ou it 
 is commanded, nations, tribes, 
 and languages : That in the 
 hour that you shall hear the 
 sound of the trumpet, ye fall 
 down and adore the golden 
 statue which king Nabucho- 
 donosor hath set up. But if any 
 
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 man shall not fall down and 
 adore, be shall the same hour 
 be cast into a furnace of burn- 
 ing fire. Upon this therefore, 
 at the time when all the people 
 heard the sound of the trum- 
 pet, all the nations, tribes, and 
 languages fell down and adored 
 the golden statue which king 
 Nabuchodonosor had set up. 
 And presently at that very 
 time some Chaldeans came and 
 accused the Jews, and said to 
 king Nabuchodonosor : O king, 
 live for ever : there are certain 
 Jews whom thou hast set over 
 the works of the province of 
 Babylon, Sidrach, Misach, and 
 Abdenago : these men, king, 
 have slighted thy decree : they 
 worship not thy gods, nor do 
 the}'^ adore the golden statue 
 which thou hast set up. Then 
 Nabuchodonosor in fury, and 
 in wrath, commanded that Si- 
 drach, Misach, and Abdenago 
 should be brought : who im- 
 mediately w^ere brought before 
 the king. And Nabuchodono- 
 sor the king spoke to them, and 
 said : Is it true, O Sidrach, 
 Misach, and Abdenago, that 
 you do not worship my gods, 
 nor adore the golden statue that 
 I have set up ? Sidrach, Mi- 
 sach, and Abdenago answered 
 and said to king Nabuchodono- 
 sor: We have no occasion to 
 answer thee concerning this 
 matter. For behold our God, 
 whom we worship, is able to 
 save us from the furnace of 
 burning fire, and to deliver us 
 out of thy hands, O king. But 
 if he will not, be it known to 
 
 thee, O king, that we will not 
 worship thy gods, nor adore 
 the golden statue which thou 
 hast set up. Then was Nabu- 
 chodonosor filled with fury : 
 and immediately these men 
 were bound and were cast into 
 the furnace of burning fire, with 
 their coats, and their caps, and 
 their shoes, and their garments. 
 For the king's commandment 
 was urgent, and the furnace 
 was heated exceedingly. And 
 the flame of the fire slew those 
 men that had cast in Sidrach, 
 Misach, and Abdenago. But 
 these three men, that is, Si- 
 drach, Misach, and Abdenago, 
 fell down bound in the midst of 
 the furnace of burning fire. 
 And they walked in the midst 
 of the flame, praising God and 
 blessing the Lord. Then Nab- 
 uchodonosor the king was as- 
 tonished, and rose up in haste, 
 and said to his nobles : Did we 
 not cast three men bound into 
 the midst of the fire? They 
 answered the king, and said : 
 True, O king. He answered, 
 and said ; Behold I see four 
 men loose, and walking in the 
 midst of the fire, and there is 
 no hurt in them, and the form 
 of the fourth is like the son of 
 God. Then Nabuchodonosor 
 can^e to the door of the burning 
 fiery furnace, and said : Sidrach, 
 Misach, and Abdenago, ye 
 servants of the most high God, 
 go ye forth, and come. And 
 immediately Sidrach, Misach, 
 and Abdenago went out from 
 the midst of the fire. And the 
 nobles, and the magistrates, 
 
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 173 
 
 and the judges, and the great j 
 men of the king being gathered 
 together, considered these men, 
 that the fire had no power on 
 their bodies, and that not a hair 
 of their head had been singed, 
 nor their garments altered, nor 
 the smell of the fire had passed 
 on them. Then Nabuchbdono- 
 sor breaking forth, said : 
 Blessed be the God of them, 
 to wit, of Sidraeh, Misach, and 
 Abdenago, who hath sent his 
 Angel, and delivered his serv- 
 ants that believed in him : and 
 they changed the king's word, 
 and delivered up their bodies 
 that they might not serve, nor 
 adore any god, except their own 
 God. By me therefore this 
 decree is made, that every 
 people, tribe, and tongue, 
 which shall speak blasphem}^ 
 against the God of Sidraeh, 
 Misach, and Abdenago, shall 
 be destroyed, and their houses 
 laid waste : for there is no other 
 God that can save in this man- 
 ner. Then the king promoted 
 Sidraeh, Misach, and Abdenago, 
 in the province of Babylon. 
 
 (Acts 19. A. D. 57.) Now 
 at that time there arose no 
 small disturbance about the 
 way of the Lord. For a cer- 
 tain man named Demetrius, a 
 silversmith, who made silver 
 temples for Diana, brought no 
 small gain to the craftsmen ; 
 whom he calling together, with 
 the workmen of like occupation, 
 said: Sirs, 3'ou know that our 
 gain is by this trade ; and 3'ou 
 see and hear, that this Paul by 
 persuasion hath drawn away a 
 
 great multitude, not only of 
 Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, 
 saj^ing : They are not gods 
 which are made by hands. So 
 that not only this our craft is 
 in danger to be set at nought, 
 but also the temple of great 
 Diana shall be reputed for noth- 
 ing ; yea, and her majesty shall 
 begin to be destroyed, whom all 
 Asia and the world woiship[)eth. 
 Having heard these things, they 
 were full of anger, and cried 
 out, saying : Great is Diana of 
 the Ephesians. 
 
 Q. Is it right to sho"W respect 
 to the pictures and images 
 of Christ and His saints ? 
 
 See'*L. of C.,"p. 31, No. 6. 
 
 Q. Is it allowed to pray to 
 the crucifix or to the images 
 and relics of the saints ? 
 
 See ''L. of C," p. 41, No. 40. 
 
 (lY. Kings 13. A. M. 3165.) 
 Eliseus died, and they buried 
 him. And the rovers from 
 Moab came into the land the 
 same year. And some that were 
 burying a man, saw the rovers, 
 and cast the body into the sep- 
 ulchre of Eliseus. And when 
 it had touched the bones of 
 Eliseus, the man came to life, 
 and stood upon his feet. 
 
 Q. "Why do V7e pray before 
 the crucifix and the images 
 and relics of the saints ? 
 
 (Gal. 6.) God forbid that I 
 should glory, save in the cross 
 of our Lord Jesus Christ ; by 
 whom the world is crucified to 
 me, and I to the world. 
 
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 LESSON THIRTY-SECOND. 
 
 FROM THE SECOND TO THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT. 
 
 Q. "What is the second Com- 
 mandment ? 
 
 See"L.of C.,"p. 32, No. 11. 
 
 (Ex. 20.) Thou Shalt not 
 take the name of the Lord thy 
 God in vain : for the Lord will 
 not hold him guiltless that shall 
 take the name of the Lord his 
 God in vain. 
 
 (Phil. 2.) Let nothing be 
 done through contention, neith- 
 er by vain-glory : but in humil- 
 ity, let each esteem others bet- 
 ter than themselves : each one 
 not considerino: the thino^s that 
 are his own, but those that are 
 other men's. For let this mind 
 be in you, which was also in 
 Christ Jesus : who being in the 
 form of God, thought it not 
 robbery to be equal with God : 
 but emptied himself, taking the 
 form of a servant, being made 
 in the likeness of men, and in 
 habit found as a man. He hum- 
 bled himself, becoming obedi- 
 ent unto death, even to the 
 death of the cross. For which 
 cause God also hath exalted 
 him, and hath given him a 
 name which is above all names : 
 that in the name of Jesus every 
 knee should bow, of those that 
 are in heaven, on earth, and 
 under the earth : and that every 
 tongue should confess that the 
 Lord Jesus Christ is in the 
 glory of God the Father. 
 
 Q. "What are -we commanded 
 by the second Command- 
 ment? 
 
 See"L. of C.,"p. 92, No. 35. 
 
 Q. "What is an oath ? 
 
 (Heb. 6.) God making prom- 
 ise to Abraham, because he had 
 no one greater by whom he 
 might' swear, swore by himself, 
 saying : Unless blessing I shall 
 bless thee^ and mvltiplying I 
 shall multiply thee. And so 
 patientl}" enduring he obtained 
 the promise. For men swear 
 by one greater than themselves : 
 and an oath for confirmation is 
 the end of all their controversy. 
 Wherein God, meaning more 
 abundantl}^ to shew to the heirs 
 of the promise the immutability 
 of his counsel, interposed an 
 oath : that by two immutable 
 things, in which it is impos- 
 sible for God to lie, we may 
 have the strongest comfort, who 
 have fled for refuge to hold fast 
 the hope set before us. 
 
 Q. "When may ^we take an 
 oath? 
 
 (James 5.) Above all things, 
 my brethren, swear not, neither 
 by heaven, nor by the earth, 
 nor by any other oath. But 
 let your speech be, yea, yea : 
 no, no : that you fall not under 
 judgment. 
 
 (Jer. 4.) And thou shalt 
 swear: As the Lord tiveth, in 
 truth, and in judgment, and in 
 justice: and the Gentiles shall 
 bless him, and shall praise him. 
 
 Q. What is necessary to make 
 an oath lawful ? 
 
 (Eccltus. 23.) A man that 
 
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 sweareth much, shall be filled 
 with iniquity, and a scourge 
 shall not depart from his house. 
 And if he make it void, his 
 sin shall be upon him : and if 
 he dissemble it, he offendeth 
 double : and if he swear in vain, 
 he shall not be justified : for his 
 house shall be filled with his 
 punishment. 
 
 Q. "What is a vo"W ? 
 
 (Eccltus. 5.) If thou hast 
 vowed any thing to God, defer 
 not to pay it : for an unfaithful 
 and foolish promise displeaseth 
 him : but whatsoever thou hast 
 vowed, pay it. And it is much 
 better not to vow, than after a 
 vow not to perform the things 
 promised. 
 
 Q. Is it a sin not to fulfil our 
 
 VO"WS? 
 
 (Lev. 27. A. M. 2514.) The 
 Lord spoke to Moses, saying : 
 Speak to the children of Israel, 
 and thou shalt say to them : 
 The man that shall have made 
 a vow, and promised his soul 
 to God, shall give the price 
 according to estimation. Any 
 thing that is devoted to the 
 Lord, whether it be man, or 
 beast, or field, shall not be sold, 
 neither may it be redeemed. 
 Whatsoever is once consecrated 
 shall be holy of holies to the 
 Lord. 
 
 (Num. 30.) Moses said to 
 the princes of the tribes of the 
 children of Israel: This is the 
 word that the Lord hath com- 
 manded : if any man make a 
 vow to the Lord, or bind him- 
 
 self by an oath : he shall not 
 make his word void but shall 
 fulfil all that he promised. If 
 a woman vow any thing, and 
 bind herself by an oath, being 
 in her father's house, and but 
 yet a girl in age : if her father 
 knew the vow that she hath 
 promised, and the oath where- 
 with she hath bound her soul, 
 and held his peace, she shall be 
 bound by the vow : whatsoever 
 she promised and swore, she 
 shall fulfil in deed. But if her 
 father, immediately as soon as 
 he heard it, gain-said it, both 
 her vows and her oaths shall be 
 void, neither shall she be bound 
 to what she promised, because 
 her father hath gain-said it. If 
 she have a husband, and shall 
 vow any thing, and the word 
 once going out of her mouth 
 shall bind her soul by an oath : 
 the day that her husband shall 
 hear it, and not gain-say it, she 
 shall be bound to the vow, and 
 shall give whatsoever she prom- 
 ised. But if as soon as he hear- 
 eth be gain-say it, and make 
 her promises and the words 
 wherewith she had bound her 
 soul of no effect : the Lord will 
 forgive her. If she vow and 
 bind herself by oath, to aflOiict ^ 
 her soul by fasting, or absti- 
 nence from other things, it shall 
 depend on the will of her hus- 
 band, w^hether she shall do it, 
 or not do it. But if the hus- 
 band hearing it hold his peace, 
 and defer the declaring his mind 
 till another day : whatsoever 
 she had vowed and promised, 
 she shall fulfil : because imme- 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 cliately as he beard it, he held 
 his peace. But if he gain-say 
 it after that he knew it, he shall 
 bear her iniquity. 
 
 (Dent. 23.) When thou hast 
 made a vow to the Lord thy 
 God, thou shalt not delay to 
 pay it : because the Lord thy 
 God will require it. And if 
 thou delay, it shall be imputed 
 to thee for a sin. If thou wilt 
 not promise, thou shalt be with- 
 out sin. But that which is once 
 gone out of thy lips, thou shalt 
 observe, and shalt do as thou 
 hast promised to the Lord thy 
 God, and hast spoken with thy 
 own will and with thy own 
 mouth. 
 
 Q. "What is forbidden by the 
 second Commandment ? 
 
 See '' L. of C," p. 32, No. 11. 
 
 (Lev. 24. A. M. 2514.) Be- 
 hold there went out the son of 
 a woman of Israel, whom she 
 had of an Egyptian, among the 
 children of Israel, and fell at 
 words in the camp with a man 
 of Israel. And when he had 
 blasphemed the name, and had 
 cursed it, he was brought to 
 Moses : (now his mother was 
 called Salumith, the daughter 
 of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan :) 
 and they put him into prison, 
 till they might know what the 
 Lord would command. And 
 the Lord spoke to Moses, say- 
 ing: Bring forth the blas- 
 phemer without the camp, and 
 let them that heard him, put 
 their hands upon his head, and 
 let all the people stone him. 
 And thou shalt speak to the 
 
 children of Israel : the man 
 that curseth his God, shall bear 
 his sin : and he that blas- 
 phemeth the name of the Lord, 
 dying let him die : all the mul- 
 titude shall stone him, whether 
 he be a native or a stranger. 
 He that blasphemeth the name 
 of the Lord, dying let him die. 
 
 Q. "What is the third Com- 
 mandment ? 
 
 (Gen. 2. A. M. 1.) So the 
 heavens and the earth were 
 finished, and all the furniture 
 of them. And on the seventh 
 day God ended his work which 
 he had made : and he rested on 
 the seventh day from all his 
 work which he had done. And 
 he blessed the seventh da}^ and 
 sanctified it : because in it he 
 had rested from all his work 
 which God created and made. 
 
 Q. "What are "we commanded 
 by the third Command- 
 ment? 
 
 (Ex. 20.) Remember that 
 thou keep holy the sabbath day. 
 Six days shalt thou labour, and 
 shalt do all thy works. But on 
 the seventh day is the sabbath 
 of the Lord thy God : thou 
 shalt do no w^ork on it, thou 
 nor thy son, nor thy daughter, 
 nor thy man-servant, nor thy 
 maid servant, nor thy beast, nor 
 the stranger that is within thy 
 gates. For in six days the 
 Lord made heaven and earth, 
 and the sea, and all things that 
 are in them, and rested on the 
 seventh day : therefore the 
 Lord blessed the seventh day, 
 and sanctified it. 
 
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 Q. How are we to worship 
 Q-od on Sundays and holy- 
 days of obligation ? 
 
 See^'L. of C.,"p. 68, No. 38. 
 
 Q. Are the Sabbath day and 
 the Sunday the same ? 
 
 See"L. of C.,''p. 28, No. 1. 
 
 Q. "Why does the Church 
 command us to keep the 
 Sunday holy instead of the 
 Sabbath ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 124, No. 18; p. 125, No. 
 23. 
 
 Q. "What is forbidden by the 
 third commandment ? 
 
 (Lev. 23. A. M. 2514.) The 
 Lord spoke to Moses, saying : 
 Speak to the children of Israel, 
 
 and thou shalt say to them : 
 These are the feasts of the 
 Lord, which you shall call holy. 
 Six days shall yQ do work : the 
 seventh day, because it is the 
 rest of the sabbath, shall be 
 called holy. You shall do no 
 work on that day : it is the 
 sabbath of the Lord in all j^our 
 habitations. These also are the 
 holy-days of the Lord, which 
 3'ou must celebrate in their 
 seasons. 
 
 Q. What are servile ^works ? 
 See'*L. of C.,"p. 71,No. 4. 
 
 Q. Are servile -works on 
 Sunday ever lawful ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 30, Nos. 3, 4. 
 
 LESSON THIRTY-THIRD. 
 
 FROM THE FOURTH TO THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT. 
 
 Q. "What is the fourth Com- 
 mandment ? 
 
 (Ex. 20.) Honour thy father 
 and thy mother, that thou 
 mayest be long-lived upon the 
 land which the Lord thy God 
 will give thee. 
 
 Q. What are -we comnianded 
 by the fourth Command- 
 ment ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 91, No. 34. 
 
 (Deut. 21.) If a man have a 
 stubborn and unruly son, who 
 will not hear the command- 
 ments of his father or mother, 
 and being corrected, slighteth 
 obedience : they shall take him 
 and brin^ him to the ancients 
 
 of his city, and to the gate of 
 j udgment, and shall say to them : 
 This our son is rebellious and 
 stubborn, he slighteth hearing 
 our admonitions, he giveth 
 himself to revelling, and to 
 debauchery and banquetings : 
 the people of the city shall 
 stone him : and he shall die, 
 that you ma}^ take away the 
 evil out of the midst of you, 
 and all Israel hearing it may 
 be afraid. 
 
 Q. Are we bound to honour 
 and obey others than our 
 parents ? 
 
 (I. Kings 14. A. M. 2911.) 
 Now it came to pass one day 
 
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 that Jonathan the son of Saul 
 said to the 3'oiing man that bore 
 his armour : Come, and let us 
 go over to the garrison of the 
 Philistines, which is on the 
 other side of yonder place. 
 But he told not this to his 
 father. And Jonathan went up 
 creeping on his hands and feet, 
 and his armour-bearer after 
 him. And some fell before 
 Jonathan, others his armour- 
 bearer slew as he followed him. 
 And the watchmen of Saul, 
 who were in Gabaa of Benjamin 
 looked and behold a multitude 
 overthrown, and fleeing this 
 way and that. Then Saul and 
 all the people that were with 
 him, shouted together, and they 
 came to the place of the fight : 
 and behold every man's sword 
 was turned upon his neighbour, 
 and there was a very great 
 slaughter. And the Lord 
 saved Israel that day. And 
 the fight went on as far as Beth- 
 aven. And tiie men of Israel 
 were joined together that day ; 
 and Saul adjured the people, 
 saying : Cursed be the man that 
 shall eat food till evening, till I 
 be revenged of my enemies. So 
 none of the people tasted any 
 food : and all the common peo- 
 ple came into a forest, in which 
 there w^as honey upon the 
 ground. And when the people 
 came into the forest, behold the 
 honey dropped, but no man put 
 his hand to his mouth. For 
 the people feared the oath. But 
 Jonathan had not heard when 
 his father adjured the people : 
 and he put forth the end of the 
 
 rod, which he had in his hand, 
 and dipt it in a honey comb: 
 and he carried his hand to his 
 mouth, and his eyes w^ere en- 
 lightened. And one of the peo- 
 ple answering, said : Thy father 
 hath bound the people with an 
 oath, saying; Cursed be the 
 man that shall eat any food this 
 day. (And -the people were 
 faint.) And Jonathan said : 
 My father hfith troubled the 
 land: you have seen your- 
 selves that my eyes are en- 
 lightened, because I tasted a 
 little of this honey: how much 
 if more the people had eaten of 
 the prey of their enemies, which 
 they found? had there not 
 been made a greater slaughter 
 among the Philistines? And 
 Saul consulted the Lord : Shall 
 I pursue after the Philistines ? 
 wilt thou deliver them into the 
 hands of Israel? And he an- 
 swered him not that day. And 
 Saul said : Bring hither all the 
 corners of the people : and 
 know, and see by whom this 
 sin hath happened to-day. As 
 the Lord liveth who is the 
 saviour of Israel, if it was done 
 by Jonathan my son, he shall 
 surely die. In this none of the 
 people gain-said him. And 
 Saul said to the Lord : O Lord 
 God of Israel, give a sign, by 
 which loe may know, what the 
 meaning is, that thou answerest 
 not thy servant to-daj" : If this 
 iniquity be in me, or in my son 
 Jonathan, give a proof: or if 
 this iniquity be in thy people, 
 give holiness. And Jonathan 
 and Saul were taken, and the 
 
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 people escaped. And Saul 
 said : Cast lots between me, 
 and Jonathan my son. And 
 Jonathan was taken. And 
 Saul said to Jonathan : Tell me 
 what thou hast done. And 
 Jonathan told him, and said : I 
 did but taste a little honey 
 with the end of the rod, which 
 was in my hand, and behold I 
 must die. And Saul said : 
 May God do so and so to me, 
 and add still more : for dying 
 thou shalt die, O Jonathan. 
 And the people said to Saul : 
 Shall Jonathan then die, who 
 hath wrought this great salva- 
 tion in Israel ? this must not 
 be: as the Lord liveth, there 
 shall not one hair of his head 
 fall to the ground, for he .hath 
 wrought with God this day. 
 So the people delivered Jona- 
 than, that he should not die. 
 
 (IV. Kings 2. A. M. 3108.) 
 Eliseus went up to Bethel : and 
 as he was going up hy the way, 
 little boys came out of the cit}^ 
 and mocked him, saying : Go 
 up, thou bald-head; go up, thou 
 bald-head. And looldng back, 
 be saw them, and cursed them 
 in the name of the Lord : and 
 there came forth two bears out 
 of the forest, and tore of them 
 two and forty boys. 
 
 Q. Have parents and. su- 
 periors any duties tcwards 
 those who are under their 
 charge ? 
 
 (Eph. 6.) Children, obey 
 your parents in the Lord, for 
 this is just. Honour thy father 
 and thy mother which is the 
 
 first commandment with a prom- 
 ise ; that it may he ivell with 
 thee^ and thou mayest be long- 
 lived upon earth. And you, 
 fathers, provoke not your chil- 
 dren to anger ; but bring them 
 up in the discipline and cor- 
 rection of the Lord. Servants, 
 be obedient to them that are 
 your lords according to the 
 flesh, with fear and trembling, 
 in the simplicity of your heart, 
 as to Christ : not serving to the 
 eye, as it were pleasing men, 
 but, as the servants of Christ, 
 doing the will of God from the 
 heart, with a good will serving, 
 as to the Lord, and not to men. 
 Knowing that whatsoever good 
 thing any man shall do, the 
 same shall he receive from the 
 Lord, whether he be bond, or 
 free. And you, masters, do 
 the same things to them, for- 
 bearing threatenings, knowing 
 that the Lord both of them and 
 you is in heaven ; and there is 
 no respect of persons with him. 
 (I. Tim. 6.) But if any man 
 have not care of his own, and 
 especially of those of his house, 
 he hath denied the faith, and is 
 worse than an infidel. 
 
 Q. 'What is forbidden by the 
 fourth Commandment ? 
 
 See ''L of C," p. 90, No. 30. 
 
 (Rom. 13.) Let every soul 
 be subject to higher powers : 
 for there is no power but from 
 God: and those that are, are 
 ordained of God. Therefore he 
 that resisteth the power, re- 
 sisteth the ordinance of God. 
 And they that resist, purchase 
 
180 
 
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 to themselves damnation. For 
 princes are not a terror to the 
 good work, but to the evil. 
 Wilt thou then not be afraid 
 of the power? Do that which 
 is good: and thou shalt have 
 praise from the same. For he 
 is God's minister to thee, for 
 good. But if thou do that 
 which is evil, fear : for he 
 beareth not the sword in vain. 
 For he is God's minister : an 
 avenger to execute wrath upon 
 him that doth evil. Wherefore 
 be subject of necessity, not only 
 for wrath, but also for con- 
 science'-sake. For therefore 
 also you pay tribute. For 
 thev are the ministers of God, 
 serving unto this purpose. 
 Render therefore to all men 
 their dues. Tribute, to whom 
 tribute is due : custom, to whom 
 custom : fear, to whom fear : 
 honour, to whom honour. 
 
 Q. ^What is the fifth Com- 
 mandment ? 
 
 SeCL . of C," p. 112, No. 1. 
 
 (I. John 3.) Whosoever 
 hateth his brother is a mur- 
 derer. And you know that no 
 murderer hath eternal life abid- 
 ing in himself. In this we have 
 known the charity of God, be- 
 cause he hath laid down his life 
 for us : and we ought to lay 
 down our lives for the breth- 
 ren. He that hath the sub- 
 stance of this world, and shall 
 see his brother in need, and 
 shall shut up his bowels from 
 him : how doth the charity of 
 God abide in him ? My little 
 children, let us not love in 
 
 word, nor in tongue, but in 
 deed, and in truth. 
 
 Q. "What are we commanded 
 by the fifth Command- 
 ment? 
 
 See''L. ofC.,"p.31, No. 9. 
 
 Q. "What is forbidden by the 
 
 fifth Commandment ? 
 See "L. of C," p. 32, No. 12; p. 54, No. 1. 
 
 (Judg. 11. A.M. 2817.) The 
 Spirit of the Lord came upon 
 Jephte,and going round Galaad, 
 and Manasses, and Maspha of 
 Galaad, and passing over from 
 thence to the children of Am- 
 mon, he made a vow to the 
 Lord, saying: If thou wilt de- 
 liver the children of Ammon 
 into my hands, whosoever shall 
 first come forth out of the doors 
 of my house, and shall meet me 
 when I return in peace from the 
 children of Ammon, the same 
 will I offer a holocaust to the 
 Lord. And Jephte passed over 
 to the children of Ammon, to 
 fight against them : and th.e 
 Lord delivered them into his 
 hands. And he smote ^/?6m from 
 Aroer till you come to Mennith, 
 twenty cities, and as far as 
 Abel, which is set with vine- 
 3'ards, with a very great 
 slaughter : and the children 
 of Ammon were humbled by 
 the children of Israel. And 
 when Jephte returned into 
 Maspha to his house, his only 
 daughter met him with tim- 
 brels and with dances : for he 
 had no other children. And 
 when he saw her, he rent his 
 garments, and said : Alas 1 my 
 daughter, thou hast deceived 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 181 
 
 me, and thou th3^self art de- 
 ceived : for I have opened my 
 mouth to the Lord, and I can 
 do no other thing. And she 
 answered him : My father, if 
 thou hast opened thy mouth to 
 the Lord, do unto me whatso- 
 ever thou hast promised, since 
 the victory hath been granted 
 to thee, and revenge of thy 
 enemies. And she said to her 
 father: Grant me only this 
 which I desire : Let me go, 
 that I may go about the moun- 
 tains for two months, and may 
 bewail my virginity with my 
 companions. And he answered 
 her : Go. And he sent her away 
 for two months. And when she 
 was gone with her comrades 
 and companions, she mourned 
 her virginit}^ in the mountains. 
 And the two months being ex- 
 pired, she returned to her 
 father, and he did to her as he 
 had vowed, and she knew no 
 man. 
 
 (L Kings 18. A. M. 2942.) 
 Now when David returned, 
 after he slew the Philistine, 
 the women came out of all the 
 cities of Israel, singing and 
 dancing, to meet king Saul, 
 with timbrels of joy, and cor- 
 nets. And the women sung as 
 they played, and they said : 
 Saul slew his thousands, and 
 David his ten thousands. And 
 Saul was exceeding angry, 
 and this word was displeasing 
 in his eyes, and he said : They 
 have given David ten thou- 
 sands, and to me they have 
 given hut a thousand, what can 
 he have more but the kingdom ? 
 
 And Saul did not look on David 
 with a good eye from that day 
 and forward. And tbe day after 
 the evil spirit from God came 
 upon Saul, and he prophesied 
 in the midst of his house. And 
 David played with his hand as 
 at other times. And Saul held 
 a spear in his hand, and threw 
 it, thinking to nail David to 
 the wall : and David stept 
 aside out of his presence twice. 
 And Saul feared David, because 
 the Lord was with him, and was 
 departed from himself 
 
 Q. "Wliat is the sixth Com- 
 mandment ? 
 
 (Gen. 20. A.M. 2107.) Abra- 
 ham removed from thence to 
 the south country, and dwelt 
 between Cades and Sur, and 
 sojourned in Gerara. And he 
 said of Sara his wife : She is 
 my sister. So Abimelech the 
 king of Gerara sent, and took 
 her. And God came to Abim- 
 elech in a dream by night, 
 and he said to him : Lo thou 
 shalt die for the woman thou 
 hast taken : for she hath a hus- 
 band. Now therefore restore 
 the man his wife, for he is a 
 prophet : and he shall pray for 
 thee, and tliou shalt live : but 
 if thou wilt not restore her, 
 know that thou shalt surely 
 die, thou and all that are thine. 
 And Abimelech forthwith ris- 
 ing up in the night, called all 
 his servants : and spoke all 
 these words in their hearing, 
 and all the men were exceed- 
 ingly afraid. And Abimelech 
 called also for Abraham, and 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 said to bim : What hast thou 
 done to us? what have we 
 offended thee in, that thou hast 
 brought upon me and upon my 
 kingdom a great sin ? Abraham 
 answered : I tliought with my- 
 self, saying : Perhaps there is 
 not the fear of God in this 
 place : and they will kill me for 
 the sake of my wife : howbeit, 
 otherwise also she is truly my 
 sister, the daughter of my 
 father, and not the daughter of 
 my mother, and I took her to 
 wife. And after God brought 
 me out of my father's house, I 
 said to her: Thou shalt do me 
 this kindness : In every place, 
 to which we shall come, thou 
 shalt say that I am thy brother. 
 And Abimelech took sheep and 
 oxen, and servants and hand- 
 maids, and gave to Abraham: 
 and restored to him Sara, his 
 wife. And when Abraham 
 prayed, God healed Abimelech 
 and his wife, and his hand- 
 maids. 
 
 Q. "What are "we commanded 
 by the sixth Command- 
 ment? 
 
 See *'L. of C," p. 58, No. 13. 
 
 (I. Cor. 3.) Know you not, 
 that you are the temple of God, 
 and that the Spirit of God 
 dwelleth in you? But if any 
 man violate the temple of God, 
 him shall God destroy. For 
 the temple of God is holy, 
 which you are. 
 
 (Apoc. 14.) I beheld, and lo 
 a lamb stood upon Mount Sion, 
 and with him an hundred forty- 
 four thousand, having his name, 
 and the name of his Father, 
 
 written on their foreheads. 
 And I heard a voice from heav- 
 en, as the noise of many waters, 
 and as the voice of great thun- 
 der ; and the voice which I 
 heard, was as the voice of harp- 
 ers, harping on their harps. 
 And they sung as it were a new 
 canticle, before the throne, and 
 before the four living creatures, 
 and the ancients ; and no man 
 could say the canticle, but 
 those hundred fortv-four thou- 
 sand, who were purchased from 
 the earth. These are they who 
 were not defiled with women : 
 for they are virgins. These 
 follow the Lamb whithersoever 
 he goeth. These were pur- 
 chased from among men, the 
 first-fruits to God and to the 
 Lamb : and in their mouth 
 there was found no lie ; for they 
 are without spot before the 
 throne of God. 
 
 (Dan. 6. A. M. 3398.) In the 
 third year of the reign of Joakim 
 king of Juda, Nabuchodonosor 
 kingof Baby Ion came to Jerusa-. 
 lem, and besieged it. And the 
 Lord delivered into his hands 
 Joakim the king of Juda, and 
 part of the vessels of the house 
 of God. 
 
 (A. M. 3466.) And when 
 Baltassar his son was king he 
 made a great feast for a thou- 
 sand of his nobles : and every 
 one drank according to his age. 
 Then were the golden and silver 
 vessels brought, which he had 
 brought away out of the tem- 
 ple that was in Jerusalem : and 
 the king and his nobles, his 
 wives and his concubines, drank 
 
CATECHISM, 
 
 183 
 
 in them. In the same hour 
 there appeared fingers, as it 
 were of the hand of a man, 
 writing over-against the candle- 
 stick upon the surface of the 
 wall of the king's palace : and 
 the king beheld the joints of 
 the hand that wrote. Then 
 was the king's countenance 
 changed, and his thoughts 
 troubled him : and the joints 
 of his loins were loosed, and his 
 knees struck one against the 
 other. Then came in all the 
 king's wise men, but they could 
 neither read the writing, nor 
 declare the interpretation to 
 the king. Then Daniel was 
 brought in before the king. 
 And the king spoke, and said 
 to him : Art thou Daniel of the 
 children of the captivity of 
 Juda, whom my father the king 
 brought out of J udea ? I have 
 heard of thee, that thou canst 
 interpret obscure things, and 
 resolve difficult things : now if 
 thou art able to read the writ- 
 ing, and to shew me the inter- 
 pretation thereof, thou shalt be 
 clothed with purple, and shalt 
 have a chain of gold about thy 
 neck, and shalt be the third 
 prince in my kingdom. To 
 which Daniel made answer, and 
 said before the king : Thy re- 
 wards be to thyself and the gifts 
 of thy house give to another : 
 but the writing I will read to 
 thee, O king and shew thee the 
 interpretation thereof. Thou 
 hast lifted thyself up against 
 the Lord of heaven: and the 
 vessels of his house have been 
 brought before thee : and thou, 
 
 and thy nobles, and thy wives, 
 and thy concubines have drunk 
 wine in them : and thou hast 
 praised the gods of silver, and 
 of gold, and of brass, of iron, 
 and of wood, and of stone, that 
 neither see, nor hear, nor feel : 
 but the God who hath thy 
 breath in. his hand, and all thy 
 wa3^s, thou hast not glorified. 
 Wherefore he hath sent the 
 part of the hand which hath 
 written this that is set down. 
 And this is the writing that is 
 written : Mane, Thecel, Phares. 
 And this is the interpretation 
 of the word. Mane : God hath 
 numbered thy kingdom, and 
 hath finished it. Thecel : thou 
 art weighed in the balance and 
 art found wanting. Phares : 
 thy kingdom is divided, and is 
 given to the Medes and Per- 
 sians. Then by the king's 
 command Daniel was clothed 
 with purple, and a chain of 
 gold was 'put about his neck : 
 and it was proclaimed of him 
 that he had power as the third 
 man in the kingdom. The same 
 night Baltassar the Chaldean 
 king was slain. 
 
 Q. "What is forbidden by the 
 sixth Comniandinent ? 
 
 See"L. of C.,"p. 32, No. 10. 
 
 (Judg. 16. A. M. 2885.) Af- 
 ter this Samson loved a woman, 
 who dwelt in the valley of 
 Sorec, and she was called Dal- 
 ila. And the princes of the 
 Philistines came to her, and 
 said : Deceive him, and learn 
 of him wherein his great 
 strength lieth, and how we may 
 
184 
 
 CATECHISM, 
 
 be able to overcome him, to 
 bind and afflict him : which if 
 thou shalt do, we will give thee 
 every one of us eleven hundred 
 pieces of silver. And Dalila 
 said to Samson : Tell me, I be- 
 seech thee, wherein thy great- 
 est strength lieth, and what it 
 is wherewith if thou wert bound 
 thou couldst not break loose. 
 Then opening the truth of the 
 thing, he said to her : The ra- 
 zor hath never come upon my 
 head, for I am a Nazarite, that 
 is to say, consecrated to God 
 from my mother's womb : If 
 my head be shaven, my strength 
 shall depart from me, and I 
 shall become weak, and shall 
 be like other men. Then seeing 
 that he had discovered to her 
 all his mind, she sent to the 
 princes of the Philistines, say- 
 ing : Come up this once more, 
 for now he hath opened his 
 heart to me. And they went 
 up taking with them the money 
 which they had promised. But 
 she made him sleep upon her 
 knees, and lay his head in her 
 bosom. And she called a bar- 
 ber, and shaved his seven locks, 
 and began to drive him away, 
 and thrust him from her : for 
 immediately his strength de- 
 parted from him. Then the 
 Philistines seized upon him, 
 and forthwith pulled out his 
 eyes, and led him bound in 
 chains to Gaza, and shutting 
 him up in prison made him 
 grind. And rejoicing in their 
 feasts, when they had now 
 taken their good cheer, they 
 commanded that Samson should 
 
 be called, and should play be- 
 fore them. And being brought 
 out of prison he played before 
 them, and t\i^y made him stand 
 between two pillars. And he 
 said to the lad that guided his 
 steps : Sutfer me to touch the 
 pillars which support the whole 
 house, and let me lean upon 
 them, and rest a little. Now 
 the house was full of men and 
 women, and all the princes of 
 the Philistines were there. 
 Moreover about three thousand 
 persons of both sexes from the 
 roof and the higher part of the 
 house, were beholding Samson's 
 play. But he called upon the 
 Lord, saying : O Lord God, re- 
 member me, and restore to me 
 now my former strength, my 
 God, that I may revenge my- 
 self on my enemies, and for the 
 loss of my two eyes I may take 
 one revenge. And laying hold 
 on both the pillars on which 
 the house rested, and holding 
 the one with his right hand, 
 and the other with his left, he 
 said : Let me die with the Phil- 
 istines. And when he had 
 strongly shook the pillars, the 
 house fell upon all the princes, 
 and the rest of the rhultitude 
 that was there : and he killed 
 many more at his death, than 
 he had killed before in his life. 
 (Dan. 13. A. M.3398.) Now 
 there was a man that dwelt in 
 Bab3don, and his name was Jo- 
 I akim : and he took a wife 
 I whose name was Susanna, the 
 i daughter of Helcias, a very 
 I beautiful woman, and one that 
 1 feared God. For her parents 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 185 
 
 being just, had instructed their 
 daughter according to the 
 law of Moses. Now Joakira 
 was very rich, and had an or- 
 chard near his house : and the 
 Jews resorted to him, because 
 he was the most honourable of 
 them all. And there were two 
 of the ancients of the people 
 appointed judges that year, of 
 whom the Lord said : Iniquity 
 came out from Babylon from 
 the ancient judges, that seemed 
 to govern the people. These 
 men frequented the house of 
 Joakim, and all that had any 
 matters of judgment came to 
 them. And when the people 
 departed away at noon, Susan- 
 na went in, and walked in her 
 husband's orchard. And the 
 old men saw her going in every 
 day, and walking. So they 
 were both wounded with the 
 love of her, yet they did not 
 make known their grief one to 
 the other. And one said to an- 
 other : Let us now go home, 
 for it is dinner time. So going 
 out they departed one from an- 
 other. And turning back again, 
 they came both to the same 
 place : and asking one another 
 the cause, they acknowledged 
 their love; and then they 
 agreed upon a time, when they 
 might find her alone. And it 
 full out, as they watched a fit 
 day, she went in on a time, as 
 yesterday and the day before, 
 with two maids only. Now 
 when the maids were gone 
 forth, the two elders arose, and 
 ran to her, and said : Behold 
 the doors of the orchard are 
 
 shut, and nobody seeth us, and 
 we are in love with thee : where- 
 fore consent to us. But 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. Susanna sighed, 
 and said : I am straitened on 
 every side : for if I do this 
 thing, it is death to me : and if 
 I do it not, I shall not escape 
 your hands. But it is better 
 to fall into your hands without 
 doing it, than to sin in the sight 
 of the Lord. With that Su- 
 sanna cried out with a loud 
 voice : and the elders also cried 
 out against her. So when the 
 servants of the house heard the 
 cry in the orchard, they rushed 
 in by the back door to see what 
 was the matter. And the el- 
 ders said : As we walked in the 
 orchard alone, this woman came 
 in with two maids, and shut 
 the doors of the orchard, and 
 sent away the maids from her. 
 Then a young man that was 
 there hid came to her. And 
 him indeed we could not take, 
 because he was stronger than 
 us, and opening the doors he 
 leaped out: but having taken 
 this woman, we asked who the 
 young man was, but she would 
 not tell us : of this thing we 
 are witnesses. The multitude 
 believed them as being the el- 
 ders and the judges of the peo- 
 ple, and they condemned her 
 to death. Then Susanna cried 
 out with a loud voice, to the 
 Lord. And the Lord heard 
 her voice. And when she was 
 
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 led to be put to death, the Lord 
 raised up the holy spirit of a 
 young boy, whose name was 
 Daniel. And he standing in 
 the midst of them, said ; Are 
 ye so foolish, ye children of Is- 
 rael, that without examination 
 or knowledge of the truth, you 
 have condemned a daughter of 
 Israel? Return to judgment, 
 for thQy have borne false wit- 
 ness aofainst her. And Daniel 
 said to the people : Separate 
 these two far from one another, 
 and I will examine them. So 
 when they were put asunder 
 one from the other, he called 
 one of them, and said to him : 
 Now then, if thou sawest her, 
 tell me under what tree thou 
 sawest them conversing to- 
 gether. He said : Under a 
 mastic tree. And Daniel said : 
 Well hast thou lied against thy 
 own head : for behold the Angel 
 of God having received the sen- 
 tence of him, shall cut thee in 
 two. And having put him 
 aside, he commanded that the 
 other should come, and he said 
 to him : Now therefore tell me, 
 under what tree didst thou 
 take them conversing together. 
 And he answered : Under a 
 holm tree. And Daniel said to 
 him : Well hast thou also lied 
 against thy own head : for the 
 Angel of the Lord waiteth with 
 a sword to cut thee in two, and 
 to destroy you. And they rose 
 up against the two elders (for 
 
 Daniel had convicted them of 
 false witness by their own 
 mouth) and they did to them 
 as they had maliciously dealt 
 against their neighbour, to ful- 
 fil the law of Moses : and they 
 put them to death, and innocent 
 blood was saved in that day. 
 And Daniel became great in 
 the sight of the people from 
 that da3', and thence forward. 
 
 Q. Does the sixth Oominand- 
 ment forbid the reading of 
 bad and ininiodest books 
 and ne^vspapers ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 50, No. 8. 
 
 (Eph. 5.) Be ye followers 
 of God, as most dear children ; 
 and walk in love, as Christ also 
 hath loved us, and hath de- 
 livered himself for us, an obla- 
 tion and a sacrifice to God for 
 an odor of sweetness. But 
 fornication, and all uncleanness, 
 or covetousness, let it not so 
 much as be named among you, 
 as becometh saints : or obscen- 
 ity, or foolish talking, or scur- 
 rility, which is to no purpose; 
 but rather giving of thanks. 
 For know you this and under- 
 stand, that no fornicator, or un- 
 clean, or covetous person (which 
 is a serving of idols), hath in- 
 heritance in the kingdom of 
 Christ and of God. Let no 
 man deceive you with vain 
 words. For because of these 
 things Cometh the anger of 
 God upon the children of un- 
 belief. 
 
CATECHISM. 
 LESSON THIRTY-FOURTH. 
 
 187 
 
 FROM THE SEVENTH TO THE END OF THE TENTH COMMANDMENT. 
 
 Q. What is the seventh Com- 
 mandment ? 
 
 (Tob.2. A.M. 3283.) Tobias 
 fearing God more than the 
 king, carried off the bodies of 
 them that were slain, and hid 
 them in his house, and at mid- 
 night buried them. Now it 
 happened one day, that being 
 wearied with burying, he came 
 to his house, and cast himself 
 down by the wall and slept. 
 And as he was sleeping a 
 swallow's nest fell upon his 
 eyes, and he was made blind. 
 Now this trial the Lord there- 
 fore permitted to happen to 
 him, that an example might be 
 given to posterity of his pa- 
 tience. Now Anna, his wife, 
 went daily to weaving work 
 and she brought home what she 
 could get for their living by the 
 labor of her hands. Whereby 
 it came to pass, that she re- 
 ceived a }"oung kid, and brought 
 it home : and when her hus- 
 band heard it bleating, he said: 
 Take heed, lest perhaps it be 
 stolen, restore ye it to its own- 
 ers, for it is not lawful for us 
 either to eat or to touch any 
 thing that cometh by theft. 
 
 Q. What are -we commanded 
 by the seventh Command- 
 ment? 
 
 (Gen. 23. A.M. 2148.) Abra- 
 ham bowed down before the 
 people of the land, and he 
 spoke to Ephron, in the pres- 
 
 ence of the people : I beseech 
 thee to hear me : I will give 
 money for the field : ta:ke it, and 
 so I will bury my dead in it. 
 And Ephron answered: My 
 Lord, hear me. The ground 
 which thou desirest, is worth 
 four hundred sides of silver : 
 this is the price between me and 
 thee: but what is this? bury 
 thy dead. And when Abraham 
 had heard this, he weighed out 
 the money that ^Ephron had 
 asked, in the hearing of the 
 children of Heth, four hundred 
 sides of silver of common cur- 
 rent money. And the field that 
 before was Ephron's, wherein 
 was the double cave, looking 
 towards Mambre, both it and 
 the cave, and all the trees there- 
 of in all its limits round about, 
 was made sure to Abraham for 
 a possession, in the sight of the 
 children of Heth, and of all 
 that went in at the gate of his 
 city. 
 
 (Deut. 24.) When thou Shalt 
 demand of thy neighbor any 
 thing that he oweth thee, thou 
 shalt not go into his house to 
 take away a pledge : but thou 
 shalt stand without, and he 
 shall bring out to thee what he 
 hath. But if he be poor, the 
 pledge shall not lodge with thee 
 that night, but thou shalt re- 
 store it to him presently before 
 the going down of the sun : that 
 he may sleep in his own rai- 
 ment and bless thee, and thou 
 
188 
 
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 mayst have justice before the 
 Lord thy God. Thou shalt not 
 refuse the hire of the iieed^^, 
 and the poor, whether he be 
 thy brother, or a stranger that 
 dwelleth witii tliee in the land, 
 and is within thy gates : but 
 thou shalt pay him the price of 
 his labour the same day, before 
 the going down of the sun, be- 
 cause he is poor, and with it 
 maintaineth his life : lest he 
 cry against thee to the Lord, 
 and it be refuted to thee for a 
 sin. 
 
 Q. "What is forbidden by the 
 seventh Connnandnient ? 
 
 (Ex. 12. A. M. 2513.) The 
 children of Israel did as Moses 
 had commanded : and they asked 
 of the Egyptians vessels of sil- 
 ver and gold, and very much 
 raiment. And the Lord gave 
 favor to the people in the sight 
 of the Egyptians, so that they 
 lent unto them : and they 
 stripped the Egyptians. 
 
 (Deut. 25.) Thou shalt not 
 have divers weights in thy bag, 
 a greater and a less: neither 
 shall there be in thy house a 
 greater bushel and a less. Thou 
 shalt have a just and a true 
 weight, and thy bushel shall be 
 equal and true : that thou may- 
 est live a long time upon the 
 land which the Lord thy God 
 shall give thee. For the Lord 
 thy God abhorreth him that 
 doth these things, and he hateth 
 all injustice. 
 
 (Jer. 32. A. M. 3415.) Jere- 
 mias said : The word of the 
 Lord came to me, saying : Be- 
 
 hold, Hanameel the son of 
 Sellum thy cousin shall come 
 to thee, saying : Buy thee my 
 field, which is in Anathoth, for 
 it is thy right to buy it being 
 next akin. And Hanameel my 
 uncle's son came to me, accord- 
 ing to the word of the Lord, to 
 the entry of the prison, and 
 said to me : Buy my field, 
 which is in Anathoth in the 
 land of Benjamin : for the right 
 of inheritance is thine, and thou 
 art next of kin to possess it. 
 And I understood that this was 
 the word of the Lord. And I 
 bought the field of Hanameel 
 my uncle's son, that is in 
 Anathoth: and I weighed him 
 the money, seven staters, and 
 ten pieces of silver. And I 
 wrote it in a book and sealed it, 
 and took witnesses : and I 
 weighed him the money in the 
 balances. And I took the deed 
 of the purchase that was sealed, 
 and the stipulations, and the 
 ratifications with the seals that 
 were on the outside. And I 
 gave the deed of the purchase 
 to Baruch the son of Neri the 
 son of Maasias in the sight of 
 Hanameel my uncle's son, in 
 the presence of the witnesses 
 that subscribed the book of the 
 purchase, and before all the 
 Jews that sat in the court of 
 the prison. And I charged 
 Baruch before them, saying: 
 Thus saith the Lord of hosts 
 the God of Israel : Take these 
 writings, this deed of the pur- 
 chase that is sealed up, and 
 this deed that is open : and put 
 them in an earthen vessel, that 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 189 
 
 they may continue many days. 
 For thus saith the Lord of 
 hosts the God of Israel : 
 Houses, and fields, and vine- 
 yards shall be possessed again 
 in this land. 
 
 Q. Are we bound to restore 
 ill-gotten goods ? 
 
 See"L. of C.,"p. 83, No. 12. 
 
 Q. Are "we obliged to repair 
 the damage we have un- 
 justly caused ? 
 
 (James 5.) Go to now, ye rich 
 men, weep and howl in your 
 miseries, which shall come upon 
 you. Your riches are cor- 
 rupted : and your garments are 
 moth-eaten. Your gold and 
 silver is cankered : and the rust 
 of them shall be for a testimony 
 against you, and shall eat your 
 flesh like fire. You have stored 
 up to yourself wrath against 
 the last days. Behold the hire 
 of the labourers, who have 
 reaped down your fields, which 
 by fraud has been kept back by 
 you, crieth: and the cry of 
 them hath entered into the ears 
 of the Lord of sabaoth. You 
 have feasted upon earth : and 
 in riotousness you have nour- 
 ished your hearts, in the day 
 of slaughter. You have con- 
 demned and put to death the 
 just one, and he resisted you 
 not. Be patient therefore, 
 brethren, until the coming of 
 the Lord. Behold, the hus- 
 bandman waiteth for the pre- 
 cious fruit of the earth : pa- 
 tiently bearing till he receive 
 the early and latter rain. Be 
 you therefore also patient, and 
 
 strengthen j^our hearts : for the 
 coming of the Lord is at hand. 
 
 Q. "What is the eighth Com- 
 mandment ? 
 
 (Deut 19.) If a lying wit- 
 ness stand against a man, ac- 
 cusing him of transgression, 
 both of them, between whom 
 the controversy is, shall stand 
 before the Lord in the sight of 
 the priests and the judges that 
 shall be in those days. And 
 when after most diligent inqui- 
 sition, they shall find that the 
 false witness hath told a lie 
 against his brother : they shall 
 render to him as he meant to 
 do to his brother, and thou 
 shalt take away the evil out of 
 the midst of thee : that others 
 hearing may fear, and may not 
 dare to do such things. Thou 
 shalt not pity him, but shalt 
 require life for life, eye for eye, 
 tooth for tooth, hand for hand, 
 foot for foot. 
 
 Q. "What are we commanded 
 by the eighth Command- 
 ment? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 110, No. 4. 
 
 Q. "What is forbidden by the 
 eighth Commandment ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 33, No. 17. 
 
 Q. "What must they do who 
 have lied about their neigh- 
 bour and seriously injured 
 his character ? 
 
 See ''L. of C," p. 112, No. 2; p. 120, No. 5. 
 
 Q. What is the ninth Com- 
 mandment ? 
 
 (Ex. 20.) Thou shalt not 
 covet thy neighbour's house: 
 neither shalt thou desire his 
 
190 
 
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 wife, nor his servant, nor his 
 handmaid, nor his ox, nor his 
 ass, nor any thing that is his. 
 
 Q. What are -we coramanded 
 by the ninth Oommand- 
 ment ? 
 
 (I. Peter 2.) Dearly beloved, 
 I beseech you as strangers and 
 pilgrims, to refrain yourselves 
 from carnal desires which war 
 against the soul, having your 
 conversation good among the 
 gentiles : that whereas they 
 speak against you as evil-doers, 
 they may, by the good works, 
 which they shall behold in you, 
 glorify God in the day of visi- 
 tation. 
 
 Q. "What is forbidden by the 
 ninth Commandraent ? 
 
 (I. Cor. 5.) It is absolutely 
 heard, that there is fornication 
 among you, and such fornica- 
 tion as the like is not among 
 the heathens ; that one should 
 have his father's wife. And you 
 are puffed up ; and have not 
 rather mourned, that he might 
 be taken away from among you, 
 that hath done this deed. I in- 
 deed, absent in body, but pres- 
 ent in spirit, have already 
 judged, as though I were pres- 
 ent, him that hath so done. In 
 the name of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, you being gathered to- 
 gether, and my spirit, with the 
 power of our Lord Jesus, de- 
 liver such a one to satan for 
 the destruction of the flesh, 
 that the spirit may be saved in 
 the day of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ. 
 
 Q. Are impure thoughts and 
 desires airways sins ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 48, No. 3. 
 
 Q. What is the tenth Com- 
 mandment ? 
 
 (I. Tim. 6.) Godliness with 
 contentment is great gain. For 
 we brought nothing into this 
 world: and certainly we can 
 carry nothing out. But having 
 food, and wherewith to be cov- 
 ered, with these we are content. 
 For they that will become rich, 
 fall into temptation, and into 
 the snare of the devil, and into 
 many unprofitable and hurtful 
 desires, which drown men into 
 destruction and perdition. For 
 the desire of money is the root 
 of all evils ; which some covet- 
 ing have erred from the faith, 
 and have entangled themselves 
 in many sorrows. 
 
 Q. What are -we commanded 
 by the tenth Command- 
 ment? 
 
 (Num. 22-24. A. M. 2553.) 
 Now Balac the son of Sephor, 
 saw all that Israel had done to 
 the Amorrhite, and that the 
 Moabites were in great fear of 
 him, and were not able to sus- 
 tain his assault. He sent there- 
 fore messengers to Balaam the 
 son of Beor, a soothsayer, who 
 dwelt b}^ the river of the land 
 of the children of Ammon, to 
 call him, and to say : Behold 
 a people is come out of Eg3^pt, 
 tliat hath covered the face of 
 the earth, sitting over-against 
 me. Come therefore, and curse 
 this people, because it is might- 
 ier than I : if by any means I 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 191 
 
 may beat them and drive tliem 
 out of my land : for I know 
 that he whom thou shalt bless is 
 blessed, and he whom thou shalt 
 curse is cursed. And the an- 
 cients of Moab, and the elders 
 of Madian, went with the price 
 of divination in their hands. 
 And when they were com.e to 
 Balaam, and had told him all 
 the words of Balac, he an- 
 swered : Tarry here this night, 
 and I will answer whatsoever 
 the Lord shall say to me. And 
 while they stayed with Balaam, 
 God came and said to him : 
 Thou shalt not go with them, 
 nor shalt thou curse the people : 
 because it is blessed. And he 
 rose in the morning and said to 
 the princes : Go into your 
 country, because the Lord hath 
 forbid me to come with you. 
 Then he sent many more and 
 more noble than he had sent 
 before : saying : I am ready 
 to honour thee, and will give 
 thee whatsoever thou wilt : 
 come and curse this people. 
 Balaam answered : If Balac 
 would give me his house full of 
 silver and gold, I cannot alter 
 the word of the Lord my God, 
 to speak either more or less. I 
 pray you to stay here this night 
 also, that I may know what the 
 Lord will answer me once more. 
 God therefore came to Balaam 
 in the night, and said to him : 
 If these men be come to call 
 thee, arise and go with them : 
 j^et so, that thou do what I 
 shall command thee. Balaam 
 arose in the morning, and sad- 
 dling his ass w^ent with them. 
 
 And God was angry. And an 
 angel of the Lord stood in the 
 way against Balaam, who sat on 
 the ass, and had two servants 
 with him. The ass seeing the 
 angel standing in the way, with 
 a drawn sword, turned iierself 
 out of the way, and went into 
 the field. And when Balaam 
 beat her, and had a mhid to 
 bring her again to the way, the 
 Lord opened the mouth of the 
 ass, and she said : What have I 
 done to thee ? Why strikest 
 thou me, lo, now this third 
 time ? Balaam answered : Be- 
 cause thou hast deserved it, and 
 hast served me ill : I w^ould I 
 had a sw^ord that I might kill 
 thee. Forthwith the Lord 
 opened the eyes of Balaam, and 
 he saw the angel standing in 
 the w^ay with a drawn sword, 
 I and he worshipped him falling 
 I flat on the ground. Balaam 
 ! said : I have sinned, not know- 
 ing that thou didst stand 
 against me : and now if it dis- 
 please thee that I go, I will re- 
 turn. The angel said : Go 
 with these men, and see thou 
 speak no other thing than what 
 I shall command thee. He went 
 therefore with the princes. And 
 when morning was come, they 
 brought him to the high places 
 of Baal, and he beheld the ut- 
 termost part of the people. 
 And taking up his parable, he 
 said: Balac king of the Moa- 
 bites hath brought me from 
 Aram, from the mountains of 
 the east : Come, said he, and 
 curse Jacob : make haste and 
 detest Israel. How shall I 
 
192 
 
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 curse him^ whom God hath not 
 cursed ? By what means should 
 I detest him, whom the Lord 
 detesteth not ? I shall see him, 
 but not now : I shall behold 
 him, but not near. A star shall 
 rise out of Jacob and a sceptre 
 shall spring up from Israel : 
 and shall strike the chiefs of 
 Moab^ and shall waste all the 
 children of Seth. And Balac 
 
 said to Balaam: What is this 
 that thou dost ? I sent for thee 
 to curse my enemies : and thou 
 contrary wise blessest them. 
 And Balaam rose, and returned 
 to his place : Balac also re- 
 turned the way that he came. 
 
 Q. "What is forbidden by the 
 tenth Oommandment ? 
 
 See"L. of C.,"p. 66, No. 30. 
 
 LESSON THIRTY-FIFTH. 
 
 ON THE FIRST AND SECOND COMMANDMENTS OF THE CHURCH. 
 
 Q. "Which are the chief Com- 
 mandments of the Church ? 
 
 See "L.of C.,"p. 54, No. 5. 
 
 (Heb. 13.) Obey year prel- 
 ates, and be subject to them. 
 For they watch as being to 
 render an account of your souls ; 
 that tbey may do this with }oy, 
 and not with grief. For this is 
 not expedient for you. 
 
 Q. Is it a mortal sin not to 
 hear Mass on a Sunday or a 
 holy-day of obligation ? 
 
 (Ex. 7-11. A.M. 2513.) The 
 Lord said to Moses : Behold I 
 have appointed thee the God of 
 Pharao : and Aaron thy brother 
 shall be thy prophet. Thou 
 shalt speak to him all that I 
 command thee; and he shall 
 speak to Pharao, that he let 
 the children of Israel go out of 
 his land. And thou shalt say 
 to him : The Lord God of the 
 Hebrews sent me to thee, say- 
 ing: Let my people go to sac- 
 rifice to me in the desert : and 
 
 hitherto thou wouldst not hear. 
 Thus therefore saith the Lord : 
 In this thou shalt know that I 
 am the Lord : behold I will 
 strike with the rod, that is in 
 my hand, the water of the river, 
 and it shall be turned into blood. 
 But if thou wilt not let them 
 go, behold I will strike all thy 
 coasts with frogs. And the 
 river shall bring forth an abun- 
 dance of frogs : which shall 
 come up, and enter into thy 
 house, and thy bed-chamber, 
 and npon thy bed, and into the 
 houses of thy servants, and to 
 thy people, and into thy ovens, 
 and into the remains of thy 
 meats ; and the frogs shall come 
 in to thee, and to thy people, 
 and to all thy servants. And 
 the Lord said to Moses : Say to 
 Aaron, Stretch forth thy rod, 
 and strike the dust of the earth : 
 and may there be sciniphs in 
 all the land of Egypt. And 
 the Lord said to Moses : Arise 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 193 
 
 in the morning, and stand be- 
 fore Pharao, and thou shalt say 
 to him : Tlius saith the Lord 
 the God of the Hebrews : Let 
 my people go to sacrifice to 
 me. But if thou wilt not let 
 them go, behold I will send in 
 upon thee, and upon thy serv- 
 ants, and upon thy houses all 
 kind of flies : and the houses of 
 the Eg3^ptians shall be filled 
 with flies of divers kinds, and 
 the whole land wherein they 
 shall be. And Pharao called 
 Moses and Aaron, and said to 
 them : Go, and sacrifice to your 
 God in this land. And Moses 
 said: It cannot be so: for we 
 shall sacrifice the abominations 
 of the Egyptians to the Lord 
 our God : now if we kill those 
 things which the Egyptians 
 worship, in their presence, they 
 will stone us. And the Lord 
 said to Moses : Go in to Pharao, 
 and speak to him : Thus saith 
 the Lord God of the Hebrews : 
 Let my people go to sacrifice 
 to me. But if thou refuse, and 
 withhold them still : behold my 
 hand shall be upon thy fields : 
 and a very grievous murrain 
 upon thy horses, and asses, and 
 camels, and oxen, and sheep. 
 And the Lord said to Moses 
 and Aaron : Take to you hand- 
 fuls of ashes out of the chim- 
 ney, and let Moses sprinkle it 
 in the air in the presence of 
 Pharao. And be there dust 
 upon all the land of Egypt: for 
 there shall be boils and swell- 
 ing blains both in men and 
 beasts, in the whole land of 
 Egypt. And the Lord said to 
 
 13 
 
 Moses: Stretch forth thy hand 
 towards heaven, that there may 
 be hail in the whole land of 
 Egypt, upon men, and upon 
 beasts, and upon every herb of 
 the field in the land of Egypt. 
 And the Lord said to Moses: 
 Stretch forth thy hand upon 
 the land of Egypt unto the 
 locust, that it come upon it, 
 and devour every herb that is 
 left after the hail. And the 
 Lord hardened Pharao's heart, 
 neither did he let the children 
 of Israel go. And the liord 
 said to Moses : Stretch out thy 
 hand towards heaven : and may 
 there be darkness upon the 
 land of Egypt, so thick that it 
 may be felt. And it came to 
 pass at midnight, the Lord slew 
 every first-born in the land of 
 Egypt, from the first-born of 
 Pharao, who sat on his throne, 
 unto the first-born of the cap- 
 tive woman that was in the 
 prison, and all the first-born of 
 cattle. And Pharao arose in 
 the night, and all his servants, 
 and all Egypt ; and there arose 
 a great cry in Egypt : for there 
 was not a house wherein there 
 lay not one dead. And Pharao 
 calling Moses and Aaron, in 
 the night, said : Arise and go 
 forth from among my people, 
 you and the children of Israel : 
 go, sacrifice to the Lord as you 
 say. And the children of Israel 
 set forward from Ramesse to 
 Socoth, being about six hun- 
 dred thousand men on foot, be- 
 side children. 
 
 Q. WTiy -were holy-days in- 
 stituted by the Church? 
 
194 
 
 CATECHIS3I. 
 
 (Lev. 23. A. M. 2514.) 
 The Lord spoke to Moses, say- 
 ing : Speak to the children of 
 Israel, and thou shalt say to 
 them : These are the feasts of 
 the Lord, which you shall call 
 holy. Six days shall ye do 
 work : the seventh day, because 
 it is the rest of the sabbath, 
 shall be called holy. You shall 
 do no work on that day : it is 
 the sabbath of the Lord in all 
 your habitations. These also 
 are the holy-daj^s of the Lord, 
 which you must celebrate in 
 their seasons. The first month, 
 the fourteenth day of the month 
 at evening, is the phase of the 
 Lord : and the fifteenth da}' of 
 the same month is the solemnity 
 of the unleavened bread of the 
 .Lord. Seven days shall you 
 eat unleavened bread. The first 
 day shall be most solemn unto 
 you, and holy : you shall do no 
 servile work therein : but you 
 shall oflTer sacrifice in fire to the 
 Lord seven days. And the 
 seventh day shall be more 
 solemn, and more holy: and 
 you shall do no servile work 
 therein. And the Lord spoke 
 to Moses, saying : Speak to the 
 children of Israel, and thou 
 shalt say to them : When you 
 shall have entered into the land 
 which I will give 3^ou, and shall 
 reap your corn, you shall bring 
 sheaves of ears, the first-fruits 
 of 3"our harvest to tlie priest : 
 you shall count therefore from 
 the morrow after the sabbath, 
 wherein you offered the sheaf 
 of the first-fruits, seven full 
 weeks. Even unto the morrow 
 
 after the seventh week be ex- 
 pired, that is to say, fifty days, 
 and so you shall offer a new 
 sacrifice to the Lord. And you 
 shall call this day most solemn, 
 and most holy. You shall do 
 no servile work therein. It 
 shall be an everlasting ordinance 
 in all your dwellings and gener- 
 ations. And the Lord spoke to 
 Moses, saying : Say to the chil- 
 dren of Israel : The seventh 
 month, on the first day of the 
 month, 3'ou shall keep a sab- 
 bath, a memorial, with the 
 sound of trumpets, and it shall 
 be called holy. You shall do 
 no servile work therein, and you 
 shall offer a holocaust to the 
 Lord. And the Lord spoke to 
 Moses, saying : Upon the tenth 
 day of this seventh month shall 
 be the day of atonement, it 
 shall be most solemn, and shall 
 be called holy ; and you shall 
 afflict your souls on that day, 
 and shall off'er a holocaust to 
 the Lord. You shall do no serv- 
 ile work in the time of this 
 day: because it is a day of 
 propitiation, that the Lord your 
 God may be merciful unto you. 
 It is a sabbath of rest, and you 
 shall afflict joxxv souls beginning 
 on the ninth day of the month : 
 from evening until evening 3'ou 
 shall celebrate your sabbaths. 
 And the Lord spoke to Moses, 
 saying : Say to the children of 
 Israel: From the fifteenth day 
 of this same seventh month, 
 shall be kept the feast of 
 tabernacles seven da3's to the 
 Lord. The first day shall be 
 called most solemn and most 
 
CATECHISM, 
 
 195 
 
 holy: you shall do no servile 
 work therein. And seven days 
 you shall offer holocausts to the 
 Lord. The eighth day also 
 shall be most solemn and most 
 holy, and you shall offer holo- 
 causts to the Lord : for it is the 
 day of assembly and congrega- 
 tion : you shall do no servile 
 work therein. These are the 
 feasts of the Lord, which you 
 shall call most solemn and 
 most holy, and shall offer on 
 them oblations to the Lord, 
 holocausts and libations accord- 
 ing to the rite of every day. 
 
 Q. How should we keep the 
 holy-days of obligation? 
 
 (James 1.) Be ye doers of the 
 word, and not hearers only, de- 
 ceiving your own selves. For 
 if a man be a hearer of the 
 word, and not a doer, he shall 
 be compared to a man behold- 
 ing his own countenance in a 
 glass. For he beheld himself, 
 and went his way, and presently 
 forgot what manner of man he 
 was. But he that hath looked 
 into the perfect law of liberty, 
 and hath continued therein, not 
 becoming a forgetful hearer, 
 but a doer of the work ; this 
 man shall be blessed iu his 
 deed. And if any man think 
 himself to be religious, not 
 bridling his tongue, but deceiv- 
 ing his own heart, this man's 
 religion is vain. Religion clean 
 and undefiled before God and 
 the Father, is this : to visit the 
 fatherless and widows in their 
 tribulation : and to keep one's 
 self unspotted from this world. 
 
 Q. What do you mean by 
 fast-days ? 
 
 (Zach. 7. A. M. 3487.) It 
 came to pass in the fourth year 
 of king Darius, that the word 
 of the Lord came to Zacharias, 
 in the fourth day of the ninth 
 month, which is Casleu. When 
 Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and 
 the men that were with him, 
 sent to the house of God, to en- 
 treat the face of the Lord : to 
 speak to the priests of the 
 house of the Lord of hosts, 
 and to the prophets, saying: 
 Must I weep in the fifth month, 
 or must I sanctify myself as I 
 have now done for many years ? 
 And the word of the Lord of 
 hosts came to me, saying : 
 Speak to all the people of the 
 land, and to the priests, saying: 
 When you fasted, and mourned 
 in the fifth and the seventh 
 month for these seventy years : 
 did you keep a fast unto me? 
 And when you did eat and 
 drink, did you not eat for your- 
 selves, and drink for your- 
 selves ? And the word of the 
 Lord came to Zacharias, saying: 
 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, 
 saying : Judge 3'e true judg- 
 ment, and shew ye mercy and 
 compassion every man to his 
 brother. And oppress not the 
 widow, and the fatherless, and 
 the stranger, and the poor : and 
 let not a man devise evil in his 
 heart against his brother. Thus 
 saith the Lord of hosts : The 
 fast of the fourth month, and 
 the fast of the fifth, and the fast 
 of the seventh, and the fast of 
 the tenth shall be to the house 
 
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 of Juda, joy, and gladness, and 
 great solemnities : only love ye 
 truth and peace. 
 
 Q. What do you mean by- 
 days of abstinence ? 
 
 (1 Cor. 9.) Know you not 
 that they that run in the race, 
 all run indeed, but one re- 
 ceiveth the prize ? So run that 
 you may obtain. And every 
 one that striveth for the mas- 
 tery, refraineth himself from all 
 things : and they indeed that 
 they may receive a corruptible 
 crown ; but we an incorruptible 
 ,one. I therefore so run, not as 
 an uncertainty : I so fight, not 
 as one beating the air : but I 
 chastise my body, and bring it 
 into subjection : lest perhaps, 
 when I have preached to others, 
 I myself should become a cast- 
 away. 
 
 Q. WTiy does the Church 
 command us to abstain from 
 flesh-meat on Fridays ? 
 
 See ''L. of C," p. 16, No. 5. 
 
 (Esdras 7-8. A. M. 3537.) 
 I Esdras went up from Bab- 
 ylon, and I was a ready scribe 
 in the law of Moses, which the 
 Lord God had given to Israel : 
 and the king granted me all 
 my requests, according to the 
 band of the Lord his God upon 
 him. For I Esdras had prepared 
 my heart to seek the law of the 
 Lord, and to do and to teach in 
 Israel the commandments and 
 judgment. And I proclaimed 
 there a fast by the river Ahava, 
 that we might afflict ourselves 
 before the Lord our God, and 
 
 might ask of him a right way 
 for us and for our children, and 
 for all our substance. For I 
 was ashamed to ask the king 
 for aid and for horsemen, to de- 
 fend us from the enemy in the 
 wav : because we had said to 
 the king : The hand of our 
 God is upon all them that seek 
 him in goodness : and his power 
 and strength, and wrath upon 
 all them that forsake him. And 
 we fasted, and besought our 
 God for this : and it fell out 
 prosperouslj'' unto us. 
 
 (Dan. 1. A. M. 3398.) Nab- 
 uchodonosor, king of Babylon 
 came to Jerusalem, and besieged 
 it. And the Lord delivered 
 into his hands Joakim the king 
 of Juda. And the king spoke 
 to Asphenez the master of the 
 servants, that he should bring 
 in some of the children of Israel, 
 children in whom there was no 
 blemish, well favoured, and skil- 
 ful in all wisdom, acute in 
 knowledge, and instructed in 
 science, and such as might 
 stand in the king's palace, that 
 he might teach them the learn- 
 ing, and the tongue of the Chal- 
 deans. And the king appoint- 
 ed them a daily provision, of 
 his own meat, and of the wine 
 of which he drank himself, that 
 being nourished three years, 
 afterwards they might stand 
 before the king. Now there 
 were among them of the chil- 
 dren of Juda, Daniel, Ananias, 
 Misael, and Azarias. But Dan- 
 iel purposed in his heart that 
 he would not be defiled with the 
 king's table, nor with the wine 
 
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 which he drank : and he re- 
 quested the master of the serv- 
 ants that he might not be de- 
 filed. And God gave to Dan- 
 iel grace and mercy in the 
 sight of the prince of the serv- 
 ants. And the prince of the 
 servants said to Daniel : I fear 
 my lord the king, who hath ap- 
 pointed you meat and drink : 
 who if he should see your faces 
 leaner than those of the other 
 youths your equals, you shall 
 endanger my head to the king. 
 And Daniel said to Malasar, 
 whom the prince of the serv- 
 ants had appointed over Daniel, 
 Ananias, Misael, and Azarias: 
 Tr}', I beseech thee, thy serv- 
 ants for ten days, and let pulse 
 be given us to eat, and water 
 to drink : and look upon our 
 faces, and the faces of the chil- 
 dren that eat of the king's 
 meat : and as thou shalt see, 
 deal with thy servants. And 
 when he had heard these words, 
 he tried them for ten days. 
 And after ten days their faces 
 appeared fairer and fatter than 
 all the children that eat of the 
 king's meat. So Malasar took 
 their portions, and the wine 
 that they should drink : and he 
 gave them pulse. And to these 
 children God gave knowledge, 
 and understanding in ever}' 
 book, and wisdom : but to Dan- 
 iel the understanding also of 
 all visions and dreams. And 
 when the days were ended, after 
 which the king had ordered 
 they should be brought in : the 
 prince of the servants brought 
 them in before Nabuchodonosor. 
 
 And when the king had spoken 
 to them, there were not found 
 among them all such as Daniel, 
 Ananias, Misael, and Azarias : 
 and they stood in the king's 
 presence. And in all matters 
 of wisdom and understanding, 
 that the king inquired of them, 
 he found them ten times better 
 than all the diviners, and wise 
 men, that were in all his king- 
 dom. 
 
 (Dan. 10. A. M. 3478.) In 
 the third year of Cyrus king 
 of the Persians, a word was re- 
 vealed to Daniel surnamed Bal- 
 tassar, and a true word, and 
 great strength : and he under- 
 stood the word : for there is 
 need of understanding in a vis- 
 ion. In those days I Daniel 
 mourned the days of three 
 weeks. I eat no desirable bread, 
 and neither flesh, nor wine en- 
 tered into my mouth, neither 
 was I anointed with ointment : 
 till the days of three weeks 
 were accomplished. And in the 
 four and twentieth day of the 
 first month I was by the great 
 river which is the Tigris. And 
 I lifted up m}'' eyes, and I saw : 
 and behold a man clothed in 
 linen, and his loins were girded 
 with the finest gold : and his 
 body was like the chrysolite, 
 and his face as the appearance 
 of lightning, and his e^^es as a 
 burning lamp : and his arms, 
 and all downward even to the 
 feet, like in appearance to glit- 
 tering brass : and the voice of 
 his word like the voice of a 
 multitude. And I Daniel alone 
 saw the vision : for the men 
 
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 that were with me saw it not : 
 but an exceeding great terror 
 fell upon them, and they fled 
 away, and bid themselves. And 
 I being left alone saw this great 
 vision : and there remained no 
 strength in me, and the appear- 
 ance of my countenance was 
 changed in me, and I fainted 
 away, and retained no strength. 
 And I heard the voice of his 
 words : and when I heard, I lay 
 in a consternation upon my face, 
 and my face was close to the 
 ground. And behold a hand 
 touched me, and lifted me up 
 upon my knees, and upon the 
 joints of my hands. And he 
 said to me : Daniel, thou man 
 of desires, understand the words 
 that I speak to thee, and stand 
 upright : for I am sent now to 
 thee. And when he had said 
 this word to me, I stood trem- 
 bling. And he said to me : 
 Fear not, Daniel : for from the 
 first day that thou didst set thy 
 heart to understand, to afflict 
 th3'self in the sight of the God, 
 thy words have been heard : and 
 I am come for thy words. 
 
 Q. Why does the Church 
 command us to fast and ab- 
 stain ? 
 
 (II.Mach.7. A.M. 3837.) It 
 came to pass, that seven breth- 
 ren, together with their mother, 
 were apprehended, and com- 
 pelled by the king to eat swine's 
 flesh against the law, for which 
 end they were tormented with 
 whips and scourges. But one 
 of them, who was the eldest, 
 said thus : What wouldst l^hou 
 
 ask, or learn of us? we are 
 ready to die rather than to 
 transgress the laws of God, re- 
 ceived from our fathers. Then 
 the king being angry com- 
 manded frying-pans, and brazen 
 caldrons to be made hot : which 
 forthwith being heated, he com- 
 manded to cut out the tongue 
 of him that had spoken first : 
 and the skin of his head being 
 drawn off*, to chop off also the 
 extremities of his hands and 
 feet, the rest of his brethren, 
 and his mother, looking on. 
 And when he was now maimed 
 in all parts, he commanded him, 
 being yet alive, to be brought 
 to the fire, and to be fried in 
 the frying-pan : and while he 
 was suffering therein long tor- 
 ments, the rest, together with 
 the mother, exhorted one an- 
 other to die manfully. So when 
 the first was dead after this 
 manner, they brought the next 
 to make him a mocking-stock : 
 and when the^^ had pulled ofi[* 
 the skin of his head with the 
 hair, they asked him if he would 
 eat, before he were punished 
 throughout the whole body in 
 every limb. But he answered 
 in his own language, and said : 
 I will not do it. Wherefore he 
 also in the next place, received 
 the torments of the first : after 
 him the third was made a mock- 
 ing-stock, and when he was re- 
 quired, he quickly put forth 
 his tongue, and courageously^ 
 stretched out his hands : and 
 after he was thus dead, they 
 torij]ented the fourth in the like 
 raapppr. And when they had 
 
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 brought the fifth, they tor- 
 mented him. After him the}^ 
 brought the sixth, and he being 
 ready to die, spoke thus : Do 
 not think that thou shalt escape 
 unpunished, for that thou hast 
 attempted to fight against God. 
 Now the mother was to be ad- 
 mired above measure, and 
 worthy to be remembered by 
 good men, who beheld her seven 
 sons slain in the space of one 
 day, and bore it with a good 
 courage, for the hope that she 
 had in God : and she bravely 
 exhorted every one of them in 
 her own language, being filled 
 with wisdom : and joining a 
 man's heart to a woman's 
 thouglit. Now Antiochus, 
 thinking himself despised, and 
 withal despising the voice of the 
 upbraider, when the youngest 
 was yet alive, did not only ex- 
 hort him by words, but also as- 
 sured him with an oath, that he 
 would make him a rich and a 
 happy man, and, if he would 
 turn from the laws of his fathers, 
 would take him for a friend, 
 and furnish him with things 
 necessary. But when the young 
 man was not moved with these 
 things, the king called the 
 
 mother, and counselled her to 
 deal with the young man to 
 save his life. And when he had 
 exhorted her with many words, 
 she promised that she would 
 counsel her son. So bending 
 herself towards him, mocking 
 the cruel tyrant, she said in her 
 own language : I beseech thee^ 
 my son, look upon heaven and 
 earth, and all that is in them : 
 and consider that God made 
 them out of nothing, and man- 
 kind also : so thou shalt not 
 fear this tormentor, but being 
 made a worthy partner with thy 
 brethren, receive death, that in 
 that mercy I may receive thee 
 again with thy brethren. While 
 she was 3^et speaking these 
 words, the young man said : 
 For whom do yon sta}^ ? I will 
 not obey the commandment of 
 the king, but the commandment 
 of the law, which was given us 
 by Moses. Then the king be- 
 ing incensed with anger, raged 
 against him more cruelly than 
 all the rest, taking it grievously 
 that he was mocked. So this 
 man also died undefiled, wholly 
 trusting in the Lord. And last 
 of all after the sons the mother 
 also was consumed. 
 
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 LESSON THIRTY-SIXTH. 
 
 ON THE THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH, AND SIXTH COMMANDMENTS OP 
 
 THE CHURCH. 
 
 Q. "What is meant by the 
 command of confessing at 
 least once a year ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 67, No 31; p. 72, No. 7; 
 p. 95, No. 43. 
 
 Q. Should V7e confess only 
 once a year ? 
 
 (Eccltus. 5.) Say not: How 
 miglity am I ? and who shall 
 bring me under for my deeds? 
 for God will surely take revenge. 
 Say not : I have sinned, and 
 what harm hath befallen me? 
 for the most High is a patient 
 re warder. Be not without fear 
 about sin forgiven, and add not 
 sin upon sin : and say not : 
 The mercy of the Lord is great, 
 he will have mercy on the mul- 
 titude of my sins. For mercy 
 and wrath quickly come from 
 him, and his wrath looketh up- 
 on sinners. Delay not to be 
 converted to the Lord, and de- 
 fer it not from day to day. For 
 his wrath shall come on a sud- 
 den, and in the time of venge- 
 ance he will destroy thee. 
 
 Q. Should children go to con- 
 fession ? 
 
 See"L. of C.,"p.81, No.6. 
 
 Q. What sin does he commit 
 "Who neglects to receive 
 Communion during the Eas- 
 ter time ? 
 
 See "L. ofC," p. 71, No. 6. 
 
 Q. "What is the Easter time ? 
 
 (Jonas 3. A. M. 3197.) The 
 
 word of the Lord came to Jonas 
 
 the second time, saving : Arise, 
 and go to Ninive the great 
 city : and preach in it the 
 preaching that I bid thee. And 
 Jonas arose, and went to Nin- 
 ive, according to the word of 
 the Lord : now Ninive was a 
 great city of three days' jour- 
 ney. And Jonas began to en- 
 ter into the city one day's jour- 
 ney : and he cried, and said : 
 Yet forty days, and Ninive 
 shall be destro3^ed. And the 
 men of Ninive believed in God: 
 and they proclaimed a fast, and 
 put on sackcloth from the 
 greatest to the least. And the 
 word came to the king of Nin- 
 ive ; and he rose up out of his 
 throne, and cast away his robe 
 from him, and was clothed with 
 sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 
 And he caused it to be pro- 
 claimed and published in Nin- 
 ive from the mouth of the 
 king and of his princes, saying : 
 Let neither men nor beasts, 
 oxen nor sheep, taste any 
 thing : let them not feed, nor 
 drink water. And let men and 
 beasts be covered with sack- 
 cloth, and cry to the Lord with 
 all their strength, and let them 
 turn every one from his evil 
 way, and from the iniquity that 
 is in their hands. Who can 
 tell if God will turn, and for- 
 give : and will turn away from 
 his fierce anger, and we shall 
 not perish? And God saw 
 
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 their works, that they were 
 turned from their evil way : 
 and God had mercy with re- 
 gard to the evil which he had 
 said that he would do to them, 
 and he did it not. 
 
 Q. Are "we obliged to con- 
 tribute to the support of our 
 pastors ? 
 
 See ''L. of C," p. 52, No. 15; p. 93, No. 37. 
 
 (I. Cor. 9.) Know you not, 
 that they who work in the holj^ 
 place, eat the things that are 
 of the holy place; and they 
 that serve the altar, partake 
 with the altar? So also the 
 Lord ordained that they who 
 preach the gospel, should live 
 by the gospel. 
 
 (Deut. 16.) Three times in a 
 year shall all thy males appear 
 before the Lord thy God in the 
 place which he shall choose : in 
 the feast of unleavened bread, 
 in the feast of weeks, and in the 
 feast of tabernacles. No one 
 shall appear with his hands 
 empty before the Lord : but 
 every one shall offer according 
 to what he hath, according to 
 the blessing of the Lord his 
 God, which he shall give him. 
 
 (lY. Kings 12. A. M. 3148.) 
 Joiada the high priest took a 
 chest and bored a hole in the 
 top, and set it by the altar at 
 the right hand of them that 
 came into the house of the 
 Lord, and the priests that kept 
 the doors put therein all the 
 money that was brought to the 
 temple of the Lord. And when 
 they saw that there was very 
 much money in the chest, the 
 
 king's scribe and the high 
 priest came up, and poured it 
 out, and counted the money 
 that was found in the house of 
 the Lord : and they gave it 
 out by number and measure 
 into the hands of them that 
 were over the builders of the 
 house of the Lord : and they 
 laid it out to the carpenters, 
 and the masons that wrought 
 in the house of the Lord, and 
 made the repairs : and to them 
 that cut stones, and to buy 
 timber, and stones, to be hewed, 
 that the repairs of the house 
 of the Lord might be com- 
 pletely finished, wheresoever 
 there was need of expenses to 
 uphold the house. For it was 
 given to them that did the 
 work, that the temple of the 
 Lord might be repaired. 
 
 Q. "What is the meaning of 
 the commandment not to 
 marry -within the fourth de- 
 gree of kindred ? 
 
 See *'L. of C," p. 21, No. 5; p. 43, No. 47. 
 
 Q. "What is the meaning of 
 the command not to marry 
 privately ? 
 
 (I. Cor. 4.) Let a man so 
 account of us as of the minis- 
 ters of Christ, and the dispens- 
 ers of the mysteries of God. 
 
 Q. "What is the meaning of 
 the precept not to solem- 
 nize marriage at forbidden 
 times ? 
 
 (Eccltus. 3.) All things have 
 their season, and in their times 
 all things pass under heaven. 
 A time to be born and a time 
 to die. A time to plant, and a 
 
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 time to pluck up that which is 
 planted. A time to kill, and a 
 time to hoal. A time to de- 
 stro}', and a time to build. A 
 time to weep, and a time to 
 laugh. A time to mourn, and 
 a time to dance. A time to 
 scatter stones, and a time to 
 gather. A time to embrace, 
 and a time to be far from em- 
 braces. A time to get, and a 
 time to lose. A time to keep, 
 
 and a time to cast away. A 
 time to rend, and a time to sew. 
 A time to keep silence, and a 
 time to speak. A time of love, 
 and a time of hatred. A time 
 of war, and a time of peace. 
 
 Q. "What is the nuptial Mass ? 
 
 SeCL. of C.,"p. 18, No. 3. 
 
 Q. Should Catholics be mar- 
 ried at a nuptial Mass ? 
 
 See *' L. of C./' p. 89, No. 29. 
 
 LESSON THIRTY-SEYENTH. 
 
 ON THE LAST JUDGMENT AND THE RESURRECTION, HELL, PURGATORY, 
 
 AND HEAVEN. 
 
 Q. "When "will Christ judge us ? 
 See "L. of C," p. 67, No. 31 ; p. 79, No. 2. 
 
 (II. Peter 3.) Of this one 
 thing be not ignorant, my be- 
 loved, that one day with the 
 Lord is as a thousand years, 
 and a thousand years as one 
 day. The Lord delay eth not 
 his promise, as some imagine, 
 but dealeth patiently for your 
 sake, not willing that any 
 should perish, but that all 
 should return to penance. But 
 the day of the Lord shall come 
 as a thief, in which the heavens 
 shall pass away with great vio- 
 lence, and the elements shall be 
 melted with heat, and the earth 
 and the works which are in it, 
 shall be burnt up. Seeing then 
 that all these things are to be 
 dissolved, what manner of peo- 
 ple ought you to be in holy 
 conversation and godliness ? 
 Looking for and hasting unto 
 
 the coming of the day of the 
 Lord, by which the heavens 
 being on fire shall be dissolved, 
 and the elements shall melt 
 with the burning heat? But 
 we look for new heavens and a 
 new earth according to his 
 promises, in which justice 
 dwelleth. Wherefore, dearl}'- 
 beloved, seeing that you look 
 for these things, be diligent 
 that ye may be found undeliled 
 and unspotted to him in peace. 
 (I. Thess. 5.) Of the times 
 and* moments, brethren, 3^ou 
 need not, that we should write 
 to you ; for j^ourselves know 
 perfectly, that the day of the 
 Lord shall so come, as a thief 
 in the night. For when they 
 shall say, peace and security ; 
 then shall sudden destruction 
 come upon them, as the pains 
 upon her that is with child, and 
 they shall not escape. But you, 
 
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 brethren, are not in darkness, 
 that that day should overtake 
 you as a thiel'. For all you are 
 the children of light, and chil- 
 dren of the day : we are not of 
 the night, nor of darkness. 
 Therefore, let us not sleep, as 
 others do: but let us watch, 
 and be sober. 
 
 (Eccltus. 41.) O death, how 
 bitter is the remembrance of 
 thee to a man that hath peace 
 in his possessions. To a man 
 that is at rest, and whose ways 
 are prosperous in all things, 
 and that is yet able to take 
 meat ! death, thy sentence 
 is welcome to the man that is 
 in need, and to him whose 
 strength faileth. Who is in a 
 decrepit age, and that is in 
 care about all things, and to 
 the distrustful that looseth 
 patience ! Fear not the sen- 
 tence of death. Remember 
 what things have been before 
 thee, and what shall come after 
 thee : this sentence is from the 
 Lord upon all flesh. 
 
 (Jer. 4. A. M. 3375.) I be- 
 held the earth, and lo it was 
 void, and nothing : and the 
 heavens, and there was no light 
 in them. I looked upon the 
 mountains, and behold they 
 trembled : and all the hills 
 were troubled. I beheld, and 
 lo there was no man : and all 
 the birds of the air were gone. 
 I looked, and behold Carmel 
 was a wilderness : and all its 
 cities were destroyed at the 
 presence of the Lord, and at 
 the presence of the wrath of 
 his indignation. 
 
 (Dan. 12.) At that time 
 shall Michael rise up, the great 
 prince, who standeth for the 
 children of thy people : and a 
 time shall come such as never 
 was from the time that nations 
 began even until that time. 
 And at that time shall thy peo- 
 ple be saved, every one that 
 shall be found written in the 
 book. And many of those that 
 sleep in the dust of the earth, 
 shall awake : some unto life 
 everlasting, and others unto 
 reproach, to see it always. But 
 they that are learned shall 
 shine as the brightness of the 
 firmament: and they that in- 
 struct many to justice, as stars 
 for all eternity. 
 
 Q. What is the judgment 
 called which we have to 
 undergo immediately after 
 death ? 
 See "L. of C," p. 95, Nos. 42,43. 
 
 Q. What is the judgment 
 called which all men have 
 to undergo on the last day ? 
 • See "L. of C," p. 94, No 41. 
 
 (Joel 3.) I will gather to- 
 gether all nations, and will 
 bring them down into the 
 valley of Josaphat : and I will 
 plead with them there for my 
 people, and for my inheritance 
 Israel, whom they have scat- 
 tered among the nations, and 
 have parted my land. Break 
 forth, and come, all ye nations, 
 from round about, and gather 
 yourselves together : there will 
 the Lord cause all thy strong 
 ones to fall down. Let them 
 arise, and let the nations come 
 up into the valley of Josaphat: 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 for there I will sit to judge all 
 nations round about. 
 
 Q. Why does Christ judge 
 men immediately after 
 death ? 
 
 (Rom. 2.) Thou art inex- 
 cusable, man, whosoever thou 
 art that judgest. For wherein 
 thou judgest another, thou con- 
 demnest th^^self. For thou 
 dost the same things which 
 thou judgest. For we know 
 that the judgment of God is, 
 according to truth, against 
 them that do such things. 
 And thinkest thou this, man, 
 that judgest them who do such 
 things, and dost the same, that 
 thou shalt escape the judgment 
 of God ? Or despisest thou 
 the riches of his goodness, and 
 patience, and long-suffering ? 
 Knowest thou not, that the 
 benignity of God leadeth thee 
 to penance ? But according to 
 thy hardness and impenitent 
 heart, thou treasurest up to 
 thyself wrath, against the day 
 of wrath, and revelation of the 
 just judgment of God, who 
 will render to every man ac- 
 cording to his works. To them 
 indeed, who according to pa- 
 tience in good work, seek glory, 
 and honour, and incorruption : 
 eternal life: but to them that 
 are contentious, and who obey 
 not the truth, but give credit to 
 iniquity ; wrath and indigna- 
 tion, tribulation and anguish 
 upon every soul. 
 
 Q. "What are the re-wards or 
 punishments appointed for 
 men*s souls after the Par- 
 ticular Judgment ? 
 
 (II. Thess. 1.) We are 
 bound to give thanks always 
 to God for you, brethren, as it 
 is fitting, because your faith 
 groweth exceedingly, and the 
 charity of every one of you 
 towards each other, aboundeth : 
 so that we ourselves also glory 
 in you in the churches of God, 
 for your patience and faith, and 
 in all your persecutions and 
 tribulations, which 3^ou endure. 
 For an example of the just 
 judgment of God, that you may 
 be counted worthy of the king- 
 dom of God, for which also 3"ou 
 suffer. Seeing it is a just thing 
 with God, to repay tribulation 
 to them that trouble you : and 
 to you who are troubled, rest 
 with us when the Lord Jesus 
 shall be revealed from heaven, 
 with the angels of his power : 
 in a flame of fire, yielding venge- 
 ance to them who know not 
 God, and who obey not the 
 gospel of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ. Who shall suffer eter- 
 nal punishment in destruction, 
 from the face of the Lord, and 
 from the glory of his power : 
 when he shall come to be glori- 
 fied in his saints, and to be 
 made wonderful in all them who 
 have believed ; because our tes- 
 timony was believed upon you 
 in that day. 
 
 (Gen. 15. A. M. 2092.) Now 
 when these things were done, 
 the word of the Lord came to 
 Abram by a vision, saying: 
 Fear not, Abram, I am thy 
 protector, and thy reward ex- 
 ceeding great. And Abram 
 said : Lord God, what wilt thou 
 
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 give me ? And he said to him : 
 I am the Lord who brought 
 thee out from Ur of the Chal- 
 dees, to give thee this land, and 
 that thou mightest possess it. 
 Abram believed God, and it 
 was reputed to him unto jus- 
 tice. And when the sun was 
 set, there arose a dark mist, and 
 there appeared a smoking fur- 
 nace and a lamp of fire passing 
 between those divisions. That 
 day God made a covenant with 
 Abram, saying : To thy seed 
 will I give this land, from the 
 river of Egypt even to the 
 great river Euphrates. 
 
 (Ex. 13. A. M. 2513.) The 
 children of Israel set forward 
 from Ramesse to Socoth, being 
 about six hundred thousand 
 men on foot, beside children. 
 And marching from Socoth 
 they encamped in Etham in 
 the utmost coasts of the wilder- 
 ness. And the Lord went be- 
 fore them to shew the way by 
 day in a pillar of a cloud, and 
 by night in a pillar of fire: that 
 he might be the guide of their 
 journey at both times. There 
 never failed the pillar of the 
 cloud by day, nor the pillar of 
 fire by night, before the people. 
 
 Q. What is Hell? 
 
 (Wisd. 5.) Then shall the 
 just stand with great con- 
 stancy against those that have 
 aflflicted them, and taken away 
 their labors. These seeing it, 
 shall be troubled with terrible 
 fear, and shall be amazed at the 
 suddenness of their unexpected 
 salvation. Saying within them- 
 
 selves, repenting, and groaning 
 for anguish of spirit : These are 
 they, whom we had some time 
 in derision, and for a parable 
 of reproach. We fools esteemed 
 their life madness, and their 
 end without honor. Behold 
 how they are numbered among 
 the children of God, and 
 their lot is among the saints. 
 Therefore we have erred from 
 the way of truth, and the light 
 of justice hath not shined unto 
 us, and the sun of understanding 
 hath not risen upon us. We 
 wearied ourselves in the way of 
 iniquity and destruction, and 
 have walked through hard 
 ways, but the way of the Lord 
 we have not known. What 
 hath pride profited us ? or what 
 advantage hath the boasting of 
 riches brought us ? All those 
 things are passed away like a 
 shadow, and like a post that 
 runneth on, and as a ship that 
 passeth through the waves : 
 whereof when it is gone by, the 
 trace cannot be found, nor the 
 path of its keel in the waters : 
 or as when a bird flieth through 
 the air, of the passage of which 
 no mark can be found, but only 
 tlie sound of the wings beating 
 the light air, and parting it by 
 the force of her flight ; she 
 moved her wings, and hath 
 flown through, and there is no 
 mark found afterwards of her 
 way : or as when an arrow is 
 shot at a mark, the divided 
 air presently cometh together 
 again, so that the passage 
 thereof is not known : so we 
 also being born, forthwith 
 
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 ceased to be : and have been 
 able to shew no mark of 
 virtue: but are consumed in 
 our wickedness. Such things 
 as these the sinners said in 
 hell : for the hope of the wicked 
 is as dust, which is blown away 
 with the wind, and as a thin 
 froth which is dispersed by the 
 storm : and a smoke that is 
 scattered abroad by the wind : 
 and as the remembrance of a 
 guest of one day that passeth 
 b}^ But the just shall live for 
 evermore : and their reward is 
 with the Lord, and the care of 
 them with the . most High. 
 Therefore shall they receive a 
 kingdom of glory, and a crown 
 of beauty at the hand of the 
 Lord. 
 
 (Nahum 1.) The Lord is a 
 jealous God, and a revenger : 
 the Lord is a revenger, and 
 hath wrath : the Lord taketh 
 vengeance on his adversaries, 
 and he is angrj^ with his ene- 
 mies. The Lord is patient, and 
 great in power, and will not 
 cleanse and acquit the guilty. 
 The Lord's ways are in a 
 tempest, and a whirlwind, and 
 clouds are the dust of his feet. 
 He rebuketh the sea, and drieth 
 it up : and bringeth all the 
 rivers to be a desert. The 
 mountains tremble at him, and 
 the hills are made desolate : and 
 the earth hath quaked at his 
 presence, and the world, and all 
 that dwell therein. Who can 
 stand before the face of his in- 
 dignation? and who shall resist 
 in the fierceness of his anger ? 
 his indignation is poured out 
 
 like fire: and the rocks are 
 melted by him. 
 
 Q. "What is Purgatory ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 68, No. 34. 
 
 (I. Cor. 3.) Other foundation 
 no man can lay, but that which 
 is laid ; which is Christ Jesus. 
 Now if an^^ man build upon this 
 foundation, gold, silver, pre- 
 cious stones, wood, hay, stub- 
 ble : every man's work shall 
 be manifest ; for the day of the 
 Lord shall declare ^Y, because it 
 I shall be revealed in fire ; and 
 the fire shall try every man's 
 work, of what sort it is. If 
 an3' man's work abide, which 
 he hath built thereupon, he 
 shall receive a reward. If any 
 man's work burn, he shall suffer 
 loss; but he himself shall be 
 saved, yet so as by fire. 
 
 (Zach. 13.) There shall be 
 in all the earth, siiith the Lord, 
 two parts in it shall be scat- 
 tered, and shall perish : but the 
 third part shall be left therein. 
 And I will bring the third part 
 through the fire, and will refine 
 them as silver is refined : and I 
 will try them as gold is tried. 
 The}" shall call on my name, 
 and I will hear them. I will 
 say : Thou art my people : and 
 they shall say : The Lord is my 
 God. 
 
 Q. Can the faithful on earth 
 help the souls in Purgatory ? 
 
 (II. Mach. 12. A.M. 3841.) 
 After Pentecost Judas marched 
 against Gorgias the governor 
 of Idumea. And when they 
 had joined battle, it happened 
 
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 that a few of the Jews were slain. 
 And the day following Judas 
 came with his company, to take 
 away the bodies of them that 
 were slain, and to bury them 
 with their kinsmen, in the sep- 
 ulchres of their fathers. And 
 they found under the coats of 
 the slain some of the donaries 
 of the idols of Jamnia, which 
 the law forbiddeth to the Jews : 
 so that all plainly saw, that for 
 this cause they were slain. 
 Then they all blessed the just 
 judgment of the Lord, who had 
 discovered the things that were 
 hidden. And so betaking them- 
 selves to prayers, they besought 
 him, that the sin which had 
 been committed might be for- 
 gotten. But the most valiant 
 Judas exhorted the people to 
 keep themselves from sin, for- 
 asmuch as they saw before their 
 eyes what had happened,. be- 
 cause of the sins of those that 
 were slain. And making a 
 gathering, he sent twelve thou- 
 sand drachms of silver to Jeru- 
 salem for sacrifice to be offered 
 for the sins of the dead, think- 
 ing well and religiously con- 
 cerning the resurrection. (For 
 if he had not hoped that they 
 that were slain should rise 
 again, it would have seemed 
 superfluous and vain to pray 
 for the dead,) and because he 
 considered tbat the}^ who had 
 fallen asleep with godliness, 
 had great grace laid up for 
 them. It is therefore a holy 
 and wholesome thought to pray 
 for the dead, that they may be 
 loosed from sins. 
 
 Q. If every one is judged im- 
 mediately after death, what 
 need is there of a general 
 judgment ? 
 
 See "L. of C," p. 75, No. 13; p. 82, No. 8; 
 
 p. 97, No. 44. 
 
 Q. Will our bodies share in 
 the reward or piinishment 
 of our souls ? 
 
 See " L. of C," p. 77, Nos. 19-21. 
 
 (I. Thess. 4.) We will not 
 have 3^ou ignorant, brethren, 
 concerning them that are 
 asleep, that you be not sorrow- 
 ful, even as others who have no 
 hope. For if we believe that 
 Jesus died, and rose again ; 
 even so them who have slept 
 through Jesus, will God bring 
 with him. For this we say 
 unto you in the word of the 
 Lord, that we who are alive, 
 who remain unto the coming of 
 the Lord, shall not prevent 
 them who have slept. For the 
 Lord himself shall come down 
 from heaven with command- 
 ment, and with the voice of an 
 Archangel, and with the trum- 
 pet of God : and the dead who 
 are in Christ, shall rise first. 
 Then we who are alive, who are 
 left, shall be taken up together 
 with tliem in the clouds to meet 
 Christ, into the air, and so shall 
 we be always with the Lord. 
 Wherefore, comfort ye one an- 
 other with these words. 
 
 (Ezek. 37. A. M. 3417.) 
 The hand of the Lord was upon 
 me, and brought me forth in 
 the spirit of the Lord : and set 
 me down in the midst of a plain 
 that was full of bones. And 
 he led mc about through them 
 
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 on every side : now they were 
 very many upon the face of the 
 plain, and they were exceeding 
 dry. And he said to me : Son 
 of man, dost thou think these 
 bones shall live ? And I an- 
 swered : O Lord God, thou 
 knowest. And he said to me : 
 Prophesy concerning these 
 bones ; and say to them : Ye 
 dry bones, hear the word of the 
 Lord. Thus saith the Lord 
 God to these bones : Behold, I 
 will send spirit into you, and 
 you shall live. And I will lay 
 sinews upon you, and will cause 
 flesh to grow over you, and will 
 cover you with skin: and I 
 will give you spirit and you 
 shall live, and 3^ou shall know 
 that I am the Lord. And I 
 prophesied as he had com- 
 manded me : and as I prophesied 
 there was a noise, and behold a 
 commotion : and the bones 
 came together, each one to its 
 joint. And I saw, and behold 
 the sinews, and the flesh came 
 up upon them : and the skin 
 was stretched out over them, 
 but there was no spirit in them. 
 And he said tome: Prophesy 
 to the spirit, prophesy, O son 
 of man, and say to the spirit : 
 Thus saith the Lord God: 
 Come, spirit, from the four 
 winds, and blow upon these 
 slain, and let them live again. 
 And I prophesied as he had 
 commanded me : and the spirit 
 came into them, and they lived : 
 and they stood up upon their 
 feet, an exceeding great army. 
 And he said to me: Son of 
 man : All these bones are the 
 
 house of Israel : they say : Our 
 bones are dried up, and our 
 hope is lost, and we are cut off. 
 Therefore prophesy, and say 
 to them : Thus saith the Lord 
 God : Behold I will open your 
 graves, and will bring you out 
 of your sepulchres, O my peo- 
 ple: and will bring you into 
 the land of Israel. 
 
 Q. In what state "will the 
 bodies of the just rise ? 
 
 See"L. ofC.,"p. 90, No.31. 
 
 (Gen. 15. A. M. 2092.) 
 Now when these things were 
 done, the word of the Lord 
 came to Abram by a vision, 
 saying : Fear not, Abram, I ^n\ 
 thy protector, and thy reward 
 exceeding great. And Abram 
 said : Lord God what wilt 
 thou give me ? And he brought 
 him forth abroad, and said to 
 him : Look up to heaven and 
 number the stars, if thou canst. 
 And he said to him : So shall 
 thy seed be. 
 
 Q. "Will the bodies of the 
 damned also rise ? 
 
 (I. Cor. 15.) Now if Christ 
 be preached, that he arose again 
 from the dead, how do some 
 among you say, that there is 
 no resurrection of the dead? 
 But if there be no resurrection 
 of the dead, then Christ is not 
 risen again. And if Christ be 
 not risen again, then is our 
 preaching vain, and your faith 
 is also vain. Yea, and we are 
 found false witnesses of God : 
 because we have given testi- 
 mony against God, that he hath 
 raised up Christ; whom he 
 
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 hath not raised up, if the dead 
 rise not again. For if the dead 
 rise not again, neither is Christ 
 risen again. And if Christ be 
 not risen again, your faith is 
 vain, for you are yet in your 
 sins. Then they also that are 
 fallen asleep in Christ, are 
 perished. If in this life only 
 we have hope in Christ, we are 
 of all men most miserable. But 
 now Christ is risen from the 
 dead, the first-fruits of them 
 that sleep : for by a man came 
 death, and by a man the resur- 
 rection of the dead. And as in 
 Adam all die, so also in Christ 
 all shall be made alive. But 
 every one in his own order : 
 the first-fruits Christ, then they 
 that are of Christ, who have 
 believed in his coming. After- 
 wards the end, when he shall 
 have delivered up the kingdom 
 to God and the Father, when 
 he shall have brought to nought 
 all principality, and power, and 
 virtue. But some man will 
 say : How do the dead rise 
 again? or with what manner 
 of body shall they come? 
 Senseless man, that which thou 
 sowest is not quickened, except 
 it die first. And that which 
 thou sowest, thou sowest not 
 the body that shall be ; but 
 bare grain, as of wheat, or of 
 some of the rest. But God 
 giveth it a body as he will : 
 and to every seed its proper 
 body. All flesh is not the same 
 flesh : but one is the flesh of 
 men, another of beasts, another 
 of birds, another of fishes. And 
 there are bodies celestial, and 
 
 14 
 
 bodies terrestrial: but, one is 
 the glory of the celestial, and 
 another of the terrestrial. One 
 is the glory of the sun, another 
 the glory of the moon, and 
 another the glory of the stars. 
 For star differeth from star in 
 glory. So also is the resurrec- 
 tion of the dead. It is sown in 
 corruption, it shall rise in in- 
 corruption. It is sown in dis- 
 honour, it shall rise in glory. 
 It is sown in weakness, it shall 
 rise in power. It is sown a 
 natural body, it shall rise a 
 spiritual body. Behold, I tell 
 you a mystery. We shall all 
 indeed rise again : but we shall 
 not all be changed. In a mo- 
 ment, in the twinkling of an 
 eye, at the last trumpet : for 
 the trumpet shall sound, and 
 the dead shall rise again incor- 
 ruptible : and we shall be 
 changed. For this corruptible 
 must put on incorruption ; and 
 this mortal must put on im- 
 mortality. And when this mor- 
 tal hath put on immortality, 
 then shall come to pass the 
 sa3ing that is written : Death 
 is swallowed up in victory, 
 deaths where is thy victory ? 
 deaths where is thy sting? Now 
 the sting of death is sin : and 
 the strength of sin is the law. 
 But thanks be to God, who 
 hath given us the victory 
 through our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 Q. What is Heaven ? 
 
 See^L. of C.,"p. 34, No. 20. 
 
 (II. Tim. 4.) I am even now 
 ready to be sacrificed : and the 
 time of my dissolution is at 
 
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 CATECHISM. 
 
 hand. I have fought a good 
 light, I have finished my 
 course, I have kept the faith. 
 As to the rest, there is laid up 
 for me a crown of justice, which 
 the Lord the just judge will 
 render to me in that day : and 
 not only to me, but to them 
 also that love his coming. 
 Make haste to come to me 
 quickl3\ 
 
 (Apoc. 7. A. D. 64.) After 
 tins 1 saw a great multitude, 
 which no man could number, of 
 all nations, and tribes, and peo- 
 ples, and tongues, standing be- 
 fore the throne, and in sight of 
 the Lamb, clothed with white 
 robes, and palms in their hands : 
 and thev cried with a loud 
 voice, saying : Salvation to our 
 God, who sitteth upon the 
 throne, and to the Lamb. And 
 all the Angels stood round 
 about the throne, and the an- 
 cients, and the four living crea- 
 tures; and they fell down be- 
 fore the throne upon their faces, 
 and adored God, saying; Amen. 
 Benediction, and glory, and wis- 
 dom, and thanksgiving, honour, 
 and power, and strength to our 
 God for ever and ever. Amen. 
 And one of the ancients an- 
 swered, and said to me : These 
 that are clothed in white robes, 
 who are they ? and whence came 
 they ? And I said to him : My 
 Lord, thou knowest. And he 
 said to me : These are they who 
 are come out of great tribula- 
 tion, and have washed their 
 robos, and have made them 
 white in the blood of the Lamb. 
 Therefore they are before the 
 
 throne of God, and they serve 
 him day and night in his tem- 
 ple : and he, that sitteth on the 
 throne, shall dwell over them. 
 T\iQy shall no more hunger nor 
 thirst, neither shall the sun fall 
 on them, nor any heat. For 
 the Lamb, which is in the midst 
 of the throne, shall rule them, 
 and shall lead them to the foun- 
 tains of the waters of life, and 
 God shall wipe away all tears 
 from their eyes. 
 
 (Apoc. 21.) I saw a new 
 heaven and a new earth. For 
 the first heaven and the first 
 earth was gone, and the sea is 
 now no more. And I John 
 saw the holy city, the new Jer- 
 usalem, coming down out of 
 heaven from God, prepared as 
 a bride adorned for her hus- 
 band. And the building of the 
 wall thereof was of jasper-stone : 
 but the city itself pure gold, 
 like to clear glass. And the 
 foundations of the wall of the 
 city were adorned with all man- 
 ner of precious stones. And the 
 twelve gates are twelve pearls, 
 one to each : and every several 
 gate was of one several pearl. 
 And the street of the city was 
 pure gold, as it were trans- 
 parent glass. And I saw no 
 temple therein. For the Lord 
 God Almighty is the temple 
 thereof, and the Lamb. And 
 the city hath no need of the 
 sun, nor of the moon, to shine 
 in it. For the glory of God 
 hath enlightened it, and the 
 Lamb is the lamp thereof. And 
 I heard a great voice from the 
 throne, saying : Behold the tab- 
 
CATECHISM. 
 
 211 
 
 ernacle of God with men, and 
 he will dwell with them. And 
 they shall be his people ; and 
 God himself with them shall be 
 their God. And God shall wipe 
 away all tears from their eyes : 
 and death shall be no more, nor 
 mourning, nor crying, nor sor- 
 row shall be any more, for the 
 former things are passed away. 
 And he that sat on the throne, 
 said : Behold, I make all things 
 new. And he said to me : Write, 
 for these words are most faith- 
 ful and true. And he said to 
 me : It is done. I am Alpha 
 and Omega ; the beginning and 
 the end. To him that thirst- 
 eth, I will give of the fountain 
 of the water of life, freely. He 
 that shall overcome shall pos- 
 sess these things, and I will be 
 his God ; and he shall be my 
 son. 
 
 (Isa. 65.) There shall not 
 enter into it any thing defiled, 
 or that worketh abomination or 
 maketh a lie, but they that are 
 written in the book of life of 
 the Lamb. For behold I create 
 new heavens, and a new earth : 
 and the former things shall not 
 be in remembrance, and they 
 shall not come upon the heart. 
 But 3'ou shall be glad and re- 
 joice for ever in these things, 
 which I create : for behold I 
 create Jerusalem a rejoicing, 
 and the people thereof joy. And 
 
 I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and 
 joy in niy people, and the voice 
 of weeping shall no more be 
 heard in her, nor the voice of 
 crying. 
 
 Q. "What words should we 
 bear always in raind ? 
 
 See"L. of C.,"p.50, No. 11. 
 
 (Ex. 15. A.M. 2513.) Moses 
 brought Israel from the Red 
 Sea, and they went forth into 
 the wilderness of Sur : and they 
 marched three days through 
 the wilderness, and found no 
 water. And they came into 
 Mara, and they could not drink 
 the waters of Mara, because 
 they were bitter: whereupon 
 he gave a name also agreeable 
 to the place, calling it Mara, 
 that is, bitterness. And the peo- 
 ple murmured against Moses, 
 saying : What shall we drink ? 
 But he cried to the Lord, and 
 he shewed him a tree, which 
 when he had cast into the wa- 
 ters, they were turned into 
 sweetness. There he appoint- 
 ed him ordinances, and judg- 
 ments, and there he proved him, 
 saying : If thou wilt hear the 
 voice of the Lord thy God, and 
 do what is right before him, 
 and obey his commandments, 
 and keep all his precepts, none 
 of the evils that I laid upon 
 Egypt, will I bring upon thee : 
 fori am the Lord thy healer. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 (Luke 1.) Forasmuch as 
 miny have taken in hand to set 
 forth in order a narration of the 
 things that have been accom- 
 plislied among us ; According 
 as they have delivered them 
 untp us, who from the begin- 
 ning, were eyewitnesses and 
 ministers of the word. It 
 seemed good to me also, hav- 
 ing diligently attained to all 
 things from the beginning, to 
 write to thee in order, most ex- 
 cellent Theophilus, Tiiat thou 
 may est know the verity of those 
 words in which thou hast been 
 instructed. 
 
 (John 1.) In the beginning 
 was the Word, and the Word 
 was with God, and the Word 
 was God. The same was in 
 the beginning with God. All 
 things were made b}^ him : and 
 without him was made nothing 
 that was made. In him was 
 life, and the life was the light 
 of men. And the light shineth 
 in darkness, and the darkness 
 
 did not comprehend it. There 
 was a man sent from God, 
 whose name was John. This 
 man came for a witness, to give 
 testimony of the light, that all 
 men might believe through him. 
 He was not the light, but was 
 to' give testimou}'' of the light. 
 That was the true light, which 
 enlighteneth every man that 
 Cometh into this world. He 
 was in the world, and the 
 world was made by him, and 
 the world knew him not. He 
 came unto his own, and his own 
 received him not. But as many 
 as received him, he gave them 
 power to be made the sous of 
 God, to them that believe in his 
 name. Who are born, not of 
 blood, nor of the will of the 
 flesh, nor of the will of man, 
 but of God. And the Word 
 was made flesh, and dwelt 
 among us, (and we saw his 
 glory, the glory as it were of 
 the only-begotten of the 
 Father) full of grace and truth. 
 
 (5) 
 
/ 
 
LIFE OF CHEIST. 
 
 PART I, 
 
 CHRIST'S BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD. 
 
 1. (Oct., 15 ms. B. B. C. 
 
 Luke 1.) There was in the 
 days of Herod, the king of 
 Judea, a certain priest named 
 Zachary, of the course of Abia ; 
 and his wife was of the daugh- 
 ters of Aaron, and her name 
 Elizabeth. And they were 
 both just before God, walking 
 in all the commandment's and 
 justifications of the Lord with- 
 out blame. And they had no 
 son, for that Elizabeth w^as 
 barren, and they both were well 
 advanced in years. And it came 
 to pass, when he executed the 
 priestly function in the order 
 of his course before God, Ac- 
 cording to the custom of the 
 l)riestly office, it was his lot to 
 otfer incense, going into the 
 temple of the Lord. And all 
 the multitude of the people was 
 praying without, at the hour 
 of incense. And there appeared 
 to him an angel of the Lord, 
 standing on the right side of 
 the altar of incense. And 
 
 Zachary seeing him, was trou- 
 bled, and fear fell upon him. 
 But the angel said to him: 
 Fear not, Zachary, for thy 
 prayer is heard ; and thy wife 
 Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, 
 and thou shalt call his name 
 John : And thou shalt have 
 joy and gladness, and many 
 shall rejoice in his nativity. 
 
 2. For he sh/ill be great be- 
 fore the Lord ; and shall drink 
 no wine nor strong drink : and 
 he shall be filled with the Holy 
 Ghost, even from his mother's 
 womb. And he shall convert 
 many of the children of Israel 
 to the Lord their God. And 
 he shall go before him in the 
 spirit and power of Elias; that 
 he may turn the hearts of the 
 fathers unto the children, and 
 the incredulous to the wisdom 
 of the just, to prepare unto the 
 Lord a perfect people. 
 
 3. And Zachary said to the 
 Angel : Whereb}^ shall I know 
 this? for I am an old man, and 
 
 (7) 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 my wife is advanced in years. 
 And tlie angel answering, said 
 to bim : I am Gabriel, wbo 
 stand before God ; and am sent 
 to spealv to tbee, and to bring 
 thee these good tidings. And 
 behold, thou shalt be dumb, 
 and shalt not be able to speak 
 until the day wherein these 
 things shall come to pass, be- 
 cause thou hast not believed 
 my words, which shall be ful- 
 filled in their time. And the 
 people was waiting for Zachary ; 
 and they wondered that he tar- 
 ried so long in the temple. And 
 when he came out, he could not 
 speak to them : and they un- 
 derstood that he had seen a 
 vision in the temple. And he 
 made signs to them, and re- 
 mained dumb. And it came to 
 pass, after the days of his office 
 were accomplished, he departed 
 to his own house. And after 
 those days, Elizabeth his wife 
 conceived, and hid herself five 
 months, saying: Thus hath 
 the Lord dealt with me in the 
 days wherein he hath had re- 
 gard to take away my reproach 
 among men. 
 
 4. (Mar., 9 ms. B. B. C.) 
 And in the sixth month, the 
 angel Gabriel was sent from 
 God into a city of Galilee, called 
 Nazareth, To a virgin espoused 
 to a man whose name was 
 Joseph, of the house of David ; 
 and the virgin's name was 
 Mary. And the Angel being 
 come in, said unto her : Hail, 
 full of grace, the Lord is with 
 thee: blessed art thou among 
 women. Who having heard. 
 
 was troubled at his saying, and 
 thought with herself what man- 
 ner of salutation this should be. 
 And the Angel said to her: 
 Fear not Mary, for thou hast 
 found grace with God. Behold 
 thou shalt conceive in th}^ 
 womb, and shalt bring forth a 
 son ; and thou shalt call his 
 name Jesus. He shall be great, 
 and shall be called the son of 
 the most High ; and the Lord 
 God shall give unto him the 
 throne of David his father; and 
 he shall reign in the house of 
 Jacob for ever. And of his 
 kingdom there shall be no end. 
 And Mar}^ said to the Angel : 
 How shall this be done, because 
 I know not man ? And the 
 Angel answering, said to her : 
 the Holy Ghost shall come up- 
 on thee, and the power of the 
 most High shall overshadow 
 thee : And therefore also the 
 Holy which shall be born of 
 thee shall be called the Son of 
 God. And behold thy cousin 
 Elizabeth, she also hath con- 
 ceived a son in her old age ; and 
 this is the sixth month with 
 her that is called barren : Be- 
 cause no word shall be impos- 
 sible with God. And Mar}' 
 said : Behold the handmaid of 
 the Lord ; be it done to me ac- 
 cording to thy word. And the 
 Angel departed from her. 
 
 5. And Mary rising up in 
 those da^'S, went into the hill 
 country with haste into a city 
 of Juda. And she entered in- 
 to the house of Zachary, and 
 saluted Elizabeth. And it 
 came to pass, that when Eliza- 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST, 
 
 9 
 
 betli heard the salutation of 
 Mary, the infant leaped in her 
 womb. And Elizabeth was 
 filled with the Holy Ghost: 
 And she cried out with a loud 
 voice, and said : Blessed art 
 thou among women, and bless- 
 ed is the fruit of thy womb. 
 And whence is this to me, that 
 the mother of my Lord should 
 come to me ? For behold as 
 soon as the voice of thy salu- 
 tation sounded in my ears, the 
 infant in my womb leaped for 
 joy< And blessed art thou that 
 hast believed, because those 
 things shall be accomplished 
 that were spoken to thee by 
 the Lord. And Mary said : 
 My soul doth magnify the 
 Lord. And my spirit hath 
 rejoiced in God my Saviour. 
 Because he hath regarded the 
 humility of his handmaid; for 
 behold from henceforth all 
 generations shall call me bless- 
 ed. Because he that is mighty, 
 hath done great things to me ; 
 and holy is his name. And his 
 mercy is from generation unto 
 generations, to them that fear 
 him. He hath shewed might 
 in his arm : he hath scattered 
 the proud in the conceit of their 
 heart. He hath put down the 
 mighty from their seat, and 
 hath exalted the humble. He 
 hath filled the hungry with good 
 things ; and the rich he hath 
 sent empty away. He hath re- 
 ceived Israel his servant, being 
 mindful of his mercy. As he 
 spoke to our fathers, to Abra- 
 ham and to his seed for ever. 
 And Mary abode with her 
 
 about three months ; and she 
 returned to her own house. 
 
 6. (June, 6 ms. B. B. C.) 
 Now Elizabeth's full time of be- 
 ing delivered was come, and 
 she brought fortli a son. And 
 her neighbors and kinsfolks 
 heard that the Lord had shewed 
 his great mere}'' towards her, 
 and they congratulated with her. 
 
 7. Now it came to pass, 
 that on the eighth day they 
 came to circumcise the child, 
 and they called him by his 
 father's name Zachary. And 
 his mother answering, said : 
 Not so; but he shall be called 
 John. And they said to her: 
 There is none of thy kindred 
 that is called by this name. 
 And the}^ made signs to his 
 father, how he would have him 
 called. And demanding a writ- 
 ing-table, he wrote, saying : 
 John is his name. And they 
 all wondered. And immedi- 
 ately his mouth was opened, 
 and his tongue loosed^ and he 
 spoke, blessing God. And fear 
 came upon all their neighbors ; 
 and all these things were noised 
 abroad over all the hill-country 
 of Judea. And all they that had 
 heard them laid them up in their 
 heart, sa3dng : What an one, 
 think ye, shall this child be ? 
 For the hand of the Lord was 
 with him. And Zachary his 
 father was filled with the Holy 
 Ghost ; and he prophesied, say- 
 ing : Blessed be the Lord God 
 of Israel ; because he hath visit- 
 ed and wrought theredemptio.n 
 of his people : And hath raised 
 up an horn of salvation to us, 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 in the house of David his serv- 
 ant. As he spoke by the mouth 
 of his holy prophets, who are 
 from the beginning. Salvation 
 from our enemies, and from the 
 hand of all that hate us. To 
 perform mercy to our fathers, 
 and to remember his holy testa- 
 ment. The oath, which he 
 swore to Abraham our father, 
 that he would grant to us. 
 That being delivered from the 
 hand of our enemies, we may 
 serve him without fear. In 
 holiness and justice before him, 
 all our daj^s. And thou, child, 
 shall be called the prophet of 
 the Highest : for thou shalt go 
 before the face of the Lord to 
 prepare his wa3"s. To give 
 knowledge of salvation to his 
 people, unto the remission of 
 their sins. Through the bowels 
 of the mercy of our God, in 
 which the Orient from on high 
 hath visited us. To enlighten 
 them that sit in darkness, and 
 in the shadow of death : to di- 
 rect our feet into the way of 
 peace. And the child grew, and 
 was strengthened in spirit ; and 
 was in the deserts until the day 
 of his manifestation to Israel. 
 
 8. (Mat. 1.) Now the 
 generation of Christ was in 
 this wise. When as his mother 
 Mary was espoused to Joseph, 
 before they came together, she 
 was found with child, of the 
 Holy Ghost. Whereupon Jo- 
 seph her husband, being a just 
 man, and not willing publicly 
 to expose her, was minded to 
 put her awa}' privately. But 
 while he thought on these 
 
 things, behold 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. And she shall 
 bring forth a son : and thou 
 shalt call his name Jesus. For 
 he shall save his people from 
 their sins. Now all this was 
 done that it might be fulfilled 
 which the Lord spoke by the 
 prophet, saying : Behold a vir- 
 gin shall be ivith child ^ and 
 bring forth a son, and they 
 shall call his name Emmanuel, 
 which being interpreted is, God 
 with us. And Joseph rising up 
 from sleep, did as the Angel of 
 the Lord had commanded him, 
 and took unto him his wife. 
 And he knew her not till she 
 brought forth her first-born son : 
 and he called his name Jesus. 
 
 9. (Luke 2.) Audit came to 
 pass, that in those daj^s there 
 went out a decree from Cesar 
 Augustus, that the whole world 
 should be enrolled. This en- 
 rolling was first made by Cyre- 
 nins, the governor of Syria. 
 And all went to be enrolled, 
 every one into his own city. 
 And Joseph also went up from 
 Galilee, out of the cit}" of Naz- 
 areth into Judea, to the city of 
 David, which is called Bethle- 
 hem, because he was of the 
 house and family of David, to 
 be enrolled with Mary his es- 
 poused wife, who was with 
 child. And it came to pass, 
 that when they were there, her 
 days were accomplished, that 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST, 
 
 11 
 
 she should be delivered. And 
 she brought forth her first-born 
 son, and wrapped him up in 
 swaddling clothes, and laid him 
 in a manger ; because there was 
 no room for them in the inn. 
 And there were in the same 
 country shepherds watching, 
 and keeping the night-watches 
 over their flock. And behold 
 an angel of the Lord stood by 
 them, and the brightness of God 
 shone round about them ; and 
 they feared with a great fear. 
 And the Angel said to them : 
 Fear, not; for, behold, I bring 
 you good tidings of great joy, 
 that shall be to all the people : 
 For, this day, is born to 3^ou a 
 Saviour, who is Christ the 
 Lord, in the city of David. 
 And this shall be a sign unto 
 you. You shall find the infant 
 wrapped in swaddling-clothes, 
 and laid in a manger. And 
 suddenly there was with the 
 ani2fel a multitude of the 
 heavenly army, praising God, 
 and saying : Glory to God in 
 the highest ; and on earth peace 
 to men of good-will. And it 
 came to pass, after the angels 
 departed from them into heaven, 
 the shepherds said one to an- 
 other : Let us go over to Beth- 
 lehem, and let us see this word 
 that is come to pass, which the 
 Lord hath shewed to us. And 
 they came with haste ; and they 
 found Mary and Joseph, and 
 the infant Ijing in the manger. 
 And seeing, they understood of 
 the word that had been spoken 
 to them concerning this child. 
 And all that heard, wondered ; 
 
 and at those things that were 
 told them by the shepherds. 
 But Mary kept all these words, 
 pondering them in her heart. 
 And the shepherds returned, 
 glorifying and praising God, 
 for all the things they had 
 heard and seen, as it was told 
 unto them. 
 
 10. (1 Jan., A. D. 1.) And 
 after eight days were accom- 
 plished, that the child should 
 be circumcised, his name was 
 called Jesus, which was called 
 by the angel, before he was con- 
 ceived in the womb. And after 
 the days of her purification ac- 
 cording to the law of Moses, 
 were accomplished, they carried 
 him to Jerusalem, to present 
 him to the Lord. As it is 
 written in the law of the Lord : 
 Every tnale opening the womb 
 shall he called holy to the Lord, 
 And to offer a sacrifice, accord- 
 ing as it is written in the law 
 of the Lord, a pair of turtle 
 doves, or two young pigeons. 
 
 11. And behold there was a 
 man in Jerusalem named Sime- 
 on, and this man was just and 
 devout, waiting for the conso- 
 lation of Israel ; and the Holy 
 Ghost was in him. And he 
 had received an answer from 
 the Holy Ghost, that he should 
 not see death, before he had 
 seen the Christ of the Lord. 
 And he came by the Spirit into 
 the temple. And when his 
 parents brought in the child 
 Jesus, to do for him according 
 to the custom of the law. He 
 also took him into his arms, 
 and blessed God, and said : 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 Now thou dost dismiss thy 
 servant, Lord, according to 
 thy word in peace ; Because 
 my eyes have seen thy salva- 
 tion, Which thou hast prepared 
 before the face of all peoples : 
 A light to the revelation of tiie 
 Gentiles, and the glory of thy 
 people Israel. And his father 
 and mother were wondering at 
 those things which were spoken 
 concerning him. And Simeon 
 blessed them, and said to Mary 
 his mother : Behold this child 
 is set for the fall, and for the 
 resurrection of manj^ in Israel, 
 and for a sign which shall be 
 contradicted ; And thj" own 
 soul a sword shall pierce, that, 
 out of many hearts, thoughts 
 may be revealed. And ttiere 
 was one Anna, a prophetess, 
 the daughter of Phanuel, of the 
 tribe of Aser ; she was far ad- 
 vanced in 3^ears, and had lived 
 with her husband seven years 
 from her virginit}^ And she 
 was a widow until fourscore and 
 four years ; who departed not 
 from the temple, by fastings 
 and prayers serving night and 
 day. Now she, at the same 
 hour, coming in, confessed to 
 the Lord ; and spoke of him to 
 all that looked for the redemp- 
 tion of Israel. And after they 
 had performed all things ac- 
 cording to the law of the Lord, 
 they returned into Galilee, to 
 their city Nazareth. 
 
 12. (6 Jan., A. D. 2. Mat. 
 2.) When Jesus therefore was 
 born in Bethlehem of Juda, in 
 the da^^s of king Herod, behold, 
 there came wise men from the 
 
 East to Jerusalem. 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. And 
 king Herod hearing this, was 
 troubled, and all Jerusalem with 
 him. And assembling together 
 all the chief priests and the 
 Scribes of the people, he in- 
 quired of them where Christ 
 should be born. But they said 
 to him : In Bethlehem of Juda. 
 For so it is written by the 
 prophet : And thou Bethlehem 
 the land of Juda art not the 
 least among the princes of 
 Juda: for out of thee shall 
 come forth the captain that 
 shall rule my people Israel, 
 Then Herod, privatel}' calling 
 the wise men, learned diligently 
 of them the time of the star 
 which appeared to them ; 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. Who having 
 heard the king, went their way ; 
 and behold the star which the}'^ 
 had seen in the East, went be- 
 fore them, until it came and 
 stood over where the child was. 
 And seeing the star they re- 
 joiced with exceeding great joy. 
 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. And having re- 
 ceived an answer in sleep that 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST, 
 
 13 
 
 they should not return to Her- 
 od, they went back another way 
 into their country. 
 
 13. Now 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 de- 
 stroy him. Who arose, and 
 took the child and his mother 
 by night, and retired into 
 Egypt : and he was there until 
 the death of Herod : That it 
 might be fulfilled which the 
 Lord spoke by the prophet, 
 saying : Out of Egypt have I 
 called my son. 
 
 14. Then Herod perceiving 
 that he was deluded by the 
 wise men, was exceeding angry; 
 and sending killed all the men- 
 children that were in Bethle- 
 hem, 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. Then was 
 fulfilled that which was spoken 
 by Jeremias the prophet, say- 
 ing : A voice in Rama was 
 heard^ lamentation and great 
 mourning ; Rachel bewailing 
 her children^ and ivould not be 
 comforted^ because they are not. 
 
 15. (A. D. 1 or 8.) But 
 when Herod was dead, behold 
 an Angel of the Lord appeared 
 in sleep to Joseph in Egypt, 
 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. Who arose, 
 and took the child and his 
 mother, and came into the land 
 of Israel. But hearing that 
 Archelaus reigned in Judea in 
 the room of Herod his father, 
 he was afraid to go thither : 
 and being warned in sleep re- 
 tired into the quarters of Gali- 
 lee. And coming he dwelt in a 
 city called Nazareth : that it 
 might be fulfilled which was 
 said by the propliets : That he 
 shall be called a Nazarite. And 
 the child grew, and waxed 
 strong, full of wisdom ; and 
 the grace of God was in him. 
 
 16. (Luke 2. A. D. 12.) 
 Now his parents went every 
 year to Jerusalem, at the 
 solemn day of the pasch. And 
 when he was twelve 3'ears old, 
 they going up into Jerusalem, 
 according to the custom of 
 the feast, and having fulfilled 
 the days, when they returned, 
 the child Jesus remained in 
 Jerusalem ; and his parents 
 knew it not. And thinking 
 that he was in the company, 
 they came a day's journey, and 
 sought him among their kins- 
 folks and acquaintance. And 
 not finding him, they returned 
 into Jerusalem, seeking him. 
 And it came to pass, that, after 
 three daj^s, they found him in 
 the temple, sitting in the midst 
 of the doctors, hearing them, 
 and asking them questions. 
 And all that heard him were as- 
 tonished at his wisdom and his 
 answers. And seeing him^ they 
 wondered. And his mother said 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST, 
 
 to him : Son, why hast thou 
 done so to us ? behold thy 
 father and I have sought thee 
 sorrowing. And he said to 
 them : How is it that you 
 sought me ? did you not know, 
 that I must be about my father's 
 business ? And they understood 
 
 not the word that he had spoke 
 unto them. And he went down 
 with them, and came to Naz- 
 areth, and was subject to them. 
 And his mother kept all these 
 words in her heart. And Jesus 
 advanced in wisdom, and age, 
 and grace with God and men. 
 
PART II, 
 
 CHRIST'S PUBLIC LIFE, 
 
 CHAPTER L 
 
 PEEPARATION. 
 
 1. (Luke 3. A. D. 30.) Now 
 in the fifteenth year of the reign 
 of Tiberias Cesar, Pontius Pil- 
 ate being governor of Judea, 
 and Herod being tetrarch of 
 Galilee, and Philip his brother 
 tetrarch of Iturea, and the 
 country of Trachonitis, and 
 L3^sanias tetrarch of Abilina ; 
 Under the high-priests Annas 
 and Caiphas ; the word of the 
 Lord was made unto John, the 
 son of Zachary, in the desert. 
 And he came into all the country 
 about the Jordan, preaching the 
 baptism of penance for the re- 
 mission of sins ; And saying : 
 Do penance : for the kingdom 
 of heaven is at hand. As it is 
 written in Isaias the prophet : 
 Behold I send my angel before 
 thy face^ who shall prepare the 
 way before thee, A voice of 
 one crying in the desert : Pre- 
 pare ye the way of the Lord, 
 
 make straight his paths. Every 
 valley shall be filled ; and every 
 mountain and hill shall be 
 brought low ; and the crooked 
 shall be made straight ; and the 
 rough ways plain; And all 
 flesh shall see the salvation of 
 God. 
 
 (Mat. 3.) And the same 
 John had his garment of camels' 
 hair, and a leathern girdle about 
 his loins : and his meat was lo- 
 custs and wild honey. Then 
 went out to him Jerusalem and 
 all Judea, and all the country 
 about Jordan : And were bap- 
 tized by him in the Jordan, con- 
 fessing their sins. 
 
 2. And seeing man}'' of the 
 Pharisees and Sadducees com- 
 ing to his baptism, he said to* 
 them : Ye brood of vipers, who 
 hath shewed you to flee from 
 the wrath to come ? Bring forth 
 therefore fruit worthy of pen- 
 
 (15) 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 aiice. And think not to say 
 within 3^ourselves, We have 
 Abraham for our father. For I 
 tell you that God is able of these 
 stones to raise up children to 
 Abraham. For now the axe is 
 laid to the root of the trees. 
 Every tree therefore tliat doth 
 not yield good fruit, shall be cut 
 down, and cast into the fire. 
 
 (Luke 3.) And the people 
 asked him, saying : What then 
 shall we do ? And he answer- 
 ing, said to them : he that hath 
 two coats, let him give to him 
 that hath none ; and he that 
 hath meat, let him do in like 
 manner. And the publicans 
 also came to be baptized, and 
 said to him : Master, what shall 
 we do? But he said to them : 
 Do nothing more than that 
 which is appointed you. And 
 the soldiers also asked him, 
 saying : and what shall we do ? 
 And he said to them ; Do vio- 
 lence to no man ; neither ca- 
 lumniate any man ; and be con- 
 tent with your pay. 
 
 3. Now as the people was 
 of opinion, and all were think- 
 ing in their hearts of John, that 
 perhaps he might be the Christ ; 
 John answered, sa^^ing unto all : 
 I indeed baptize 3^ou with 
 water ; but there shall come one 
 mightier than I, the latchet of 
 whose shoes I am not worthy 
 to loose : he shall baptize 3'ou 
 with the Holy Ghost, and with 
 fire : Whose fan is in his hand, 
 and he will purge his floor, and 
 will gather the wheat into his 
 barn ; but the chaff he will burn 
 with unquenchable fire. And 
 
 many other things exhorting, 
 did he preach to the people. 
 
 4. (Mat. 3.) Then cometh 
 Jesus from Galilee to the Jor- 
 dan, unto John, to be baptized 
 by him. But John stnyed him, 
 saying : I ought to be baptized 
 by thee, and comest thou to 
 me? And Jesus answering, 
 said to him : Suffer it to be so 
 now. For so it becometh us to 
 fulfill all justice. Then he suf- 
 fered him. And Jesus being 
 baptized, forthwith came out of 
 the w^ater : and lo, the heavens 
 were opened to him : and he 
 saw the Spirit of God descend- 
 ing as a dove, and coming upon 
 him. And behold a voice from 
 heaven, saying : This is my be- 
 loved Son, in whom I am well 
 pleased. 
 
 5. (Mat. 4. A. D. 30.) Then 
 Jesus was led by the spirit in- 
 to the desert, to be tempted by 
 the devil. And when he had 
 fasted forty days and forty 
 nights, afterwards he was 
 hungry. And the tempter com- 
 ing said to him : If thou be the 
 Son of God, command that these 
 stones be made bread. Who 
 answered and said : It is writ- 
 ten. Not in bread alone doth 
 man live^ hut in every word 
 that proceedeth from the mouth 
 of God, Then the devil took 
 him up into the holy city, and 
 set him upon the pinnacle of 
 the temple. And said to him : 
 If thou be the Son of God, cast 
 th3'self down, for it is written : 
 That he hath given his Angels 
 charge over thee, and in their 
 hands shall they bear thee up, 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 17 
 
 lest perhaps thou dash thy foot 
 against a stone, Jesus said to 
 him : It is written again : 
 Thou shalt not tempt the Lord 
 thy God, Again the devil took 
 him up into a very high moun- 
 tain, and shewed him all the 
 kingdoms of the world, and the 
 glory of them, And said to 
 him : All these will I give 
 thee, if falling down thou wilt 
 adore me. Tiien Jesus saith to 
 him : Be gone, satan : for it is 
 written, The Lord thy God 
 shalt thou adore, and him only 
 shalt thou serve. Then the devil 
 left him ; and behold Angels 
 came and ministered to him. 
 
 6. (John 1.) Now this is 
 the testimony of John, when 
 the Jews sent from Jerusalem 
 priests and levites to him, to 
 ask him : Who art thou ? And 
 he confessed, and did not den}" : 
 and he confessed : I am not the 
 Christ. And then they asked 
 him : What then ? Art thou 
 
 Elias ? And he said : I am not. 
 Art thou the prophet? And he 
 answered : No. They said there- 
 fore unto him : Who art thou, 
 that we may give an answer to 
 them that sent us? What say- 
 est thou of thyself? He said : 
 / am the voice of one crying in 
 the wilderness, make straight 
 the ivay of the Lord, as said the 
 prophet Isaias. And the}^ that 
 w^ere sent, were of the Pharisees. 
 And they asked him, and said 
 to him : W^hy then dost thou 
 baptize, if thou be not Christ, 
 nor Elias, nor the prophet? 
 John answered them, sa3'ing : 
 I baptize with w^ater ; but there 
 hath stood one in the midst of 
 3'ou, whom you know not. The 
 same is he that shall come after 
 me, who is preferred before me : 
 the latchet of whose shoe I am 
 not worthy to loose. These 
 things were done in Bethania, 
 beyond the Jordan, where John 
 was baptizing. 
 
 CHAPTER IL 
 
 FIRST MANIFESTATIONS. 
 
 1. (Johnl. A.D. 30.) The 
 next day, John saw Jesus com- 
 ing to him, and he saith : Be- 
 hold the Lamb of God, behold 
 him who taketh away the sin 
 of the world. This is he, of 
 whom I said : After me there 
 Cometh a man, who is preferred 
 before me : because he was be- 
 
 fore me. And I knew him not, 
 but that he may be made mani- 
 fest in Israel, therefore am I 
 come baptizing with water. 
 And John gave testimony say- 
 ing : I saw the spirit coming 
 down, as a dove from heaven, 
 and he remained upon him. 
 And I knew him not ; but he 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 who sent me to baptize with 
 water, said to me: He upon 
 whom thou shalt see the spirit 
 descending, and remaining upon 
 him, he it is that baptizeth with 
 the Holy Ghost. And I saw, 
 and I gave testimony, that this 
 is the Son of God. 
 
 2. The next day again John 
 stood, and two of his disciples. 
 And beholding. Jesus walking, 
 he saitli : Behold the Lamb of 
 God. And the two disciples 
 heard him speak and they fol- 
 lowed Jesus. And Jesus turn- 
 ing and seeing them following 
 him, saith to them : What seek 
 you ? Who said to him, Rabbi, 
 (which is to say, being inter- 
 preted. Master,) where dwellest 
 thou? He saith to them : Come 
 and see. They came, and saw 
 wliere he abode, and they staid 
 with him that day : now it was 
 about the tenth hour. And 
 Andrew, the brother of Simon 
 Peter, was one of the two who 
 had heard of John, and fol- 
 lowed him. He findeth first his 
 brother Simon, and saith to 
 him : We have found the Mes- 
 sias, which being interpreted, 
 the Christ. And he brought 
 him to Jesus. And Jesus look- 
 ing upon him, said : Thou art 
 Simon the son of Jona : Thou 
 shalt be called Cephas, which is 
 iutrepreted Peter. On the fol- 
 lowing day, he would go forth 
 into Galilee, and he findeth 
 Philip. And Jesus saith unto 
 him : Follow me. Now Philip 
 was of Bethsaida, the city of 
 Andrew and Peter. Philip 
 findeth Nathanael, and saith to 
 
 ; him : We have found him of 
 I whom Moses in the law, and 
 the prophets did write, Jesus 
 the Son of Joseph of Nazareth. 
 And Nathanael said to him : 
 Can any thing of good come 
 from Nazareth? Philip saith 
 to him ; Come and see. Jesus 
 saw Nathanael coming to him : 
 and he saith of him : Behold 
 an Israelite indeed, in whom 
 there is no guile. Nathanael 
 saith to him : Whence know- 
 est thou me? Jesus answered, - 
 and said to him : Before that 
 Philip called thee, when thou 
 wast under the fig-tree, I saw 
 thee. Nathanael answered him 
 and said: Rabbi, thou art 
 the Son of God, thou art the 
 king of Israel. Jesus answered, 
 and said to him : Because I 
 said unto thee, I saw thee un- 
 der the fig-tree, thou believest : 
 greater things than these shalt 
 thou see. And he saith to him : 
 Amen, amen I say to you, you 
 shall seethe heaven opened, and 
 the angels of God ascending 
 and descending upon the son of 
 man. 
 
 3. (John 2. A. D. 30.) Now' 
 the third day, there was a 
 marriage in Cana of Galilee : 
 and the mother of Jesus was 
 there. And Jesus also was in- 
 vited, and his disciples, to the 
 marriage. And the wine fail- 
 ing, the mother of Jesus saith 
 to him : The}'' have no wine. 
 And Jesus saith to her : Wom- 
 an, what is it to me and to 
 thee ? my hour is not yet come. 
 His mother saith to the wait- 
 ers : Whatsoever he shall say 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 19 
 
 to you, do ye. Now there were 
 set there six water-pots of stone, 
 according to the manner of the 
 purifying of the Jews, contain- 
 ing two or three measures a 
 piece. Jesus saith to them : 
 Fill the water-pots with water. 
 'And they filled them up to the 
 brim. And Jesus saith to them : 
 Draw out now, and carry to the 
 chief steward of the feast. And 
 they carried it. And when the 
 chief steward had tasted the 
 water made wine, and knew not 
 whence it was, but the waiters 
 knew who had drawn the water; 
 the chief steward calleth the 
 
 bridegroom, And saith to him : 
 Every man at first setteth forth 
 good wine, and when men have 
 well drunk, then that which is 
 worse. But thou hast kept the 
 good wine until now. This be- 
 ginning of miracles did Jesus 
 in Cana of Galilee ; and mani- 
 fested his glory, and his dis- 
 ciples believed in him. After 
 this he went down to Caphar- 
 naum, he and his mother, and 
 his brethren, and his disciples: 
 and they remained there not 
 many days. And the pasch of 
 the Jews was at hand and Jesus 
 went up to Jerusalem. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 JESUS AND JOHN. 
 
 1. (A. D. 81.) Now Jesus 
 found in the temple them that 
 sold oxen and sheep and doves, 
 and the changers of money sit- 
 ting. And when he had made, 
 as it were, a scourge of little 
 cords, he drove them all out of 
 the temple, the sheep also and 
 the oxen, and the money of the 
 changers he poured out, and the 
 tables he overthrew. And to 
 them that sold doves he said : 
 Take these things hence, and 
 make not the house of m}^ 
 Father a house of traffic. And 
 his disciples remembered, that 
 it was written : Th£ zeal of 
 thy house hath eaten me up. 
 The Jews, therefore, answered. 
 
 and said to him : What sign 
 dost thou show unto us, seeing 
 thou dost these things ? Jesus 
 answered, and said to them : 
 Destroy this temple, and in 
 three days I will raise it up. 
 The Jews then said : Six and 
 forty years was this temple in 
 building; and wilt thou raise 
 it up in three days ? But he 
 spoke of the temple of his body. 
 When therefore he was risen 
 again from the dead, his disci- 
 ples remembered, that he had 
 said this, and they believed the 
 scripture, and the word that 
 Jesus had said. 
 
 2. Now when he was at 
 Jerusalem, at the pasch, upon 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 the festival day, many believed 
 in his name, seeing his signs 
 which he did. But Jesus did 
 not trust himself unto them, for 
 that he knew ail men. And be- 
 cause he needed not that any 
 should give testimony of man : 
 for he knew what was in man. 
 3. (John 3. A. D. 31.) 
 Now there was a man of the 
 Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a 
 ruler of the Jews. This man 
 came to Jesus by night, and 
 said to him : Rabbi, we know 
 that thou art come a teacher 
 from God ; for no man can do 
 these signs which thou dost, 
 unless God be with him. Jesus 
 answered and said to him : 
 Amen, amen I say to thee, un- 
 less a man be born again, he 
 cannot see the kingdom of God. 
 Nicodemus saith to him : How 
 can a man be born when he is 
 old ? can he enter a second 
 time into his mother's womb, 
 and be born again ? Jesus an- 
 swered : Amen, amen I say to 
 thee, unless a man be born 
 again of water and the Holy 
 Ghost, he cannot enter into the 
 kingdom of God. That which 
 is born of the tlesh, is flesh ; and 
 that which is born of the Spirit, 
 is spirit. Wonder not, that I 
 said to thee, you must be born 
 again. The Spirit breatheth 
 where he will ; and thou hearest 
 his voice, but thou knowest not 
 whence he cometh, and whither 
 he goeth : so is every one that 
 is born of the Spirit. Nicode- 
 mus answered, and said to him : 
 How can these thinsjs be done ? 
 Jesus answered, and said to 
 
 him: Art thou a master in 
 Israel, and knowest not these 
 things? Amen, amen I say to 
 thee, that we speak what we 
 know, and we testify what we 
 have seen, and you receive not 
 our testimony. If I have 
 spoken to you earthl}'' things, 
 and you believe not ; how will 
 you believe, if I shall speak to 
 you heavenly things ? And no 
 man hath ascended into heav- 
 en, but he that descended from 
 heaven, the son of man who is 
 in heaven. And as Moses lifted 
 up the serpent in the desert, so 
 must the son of man be lifted 
 up: That whosoever believeth 
 in him, may not perish ; but 
 may have life everlasting. For 
 God so loved the world, as to 
 give his only-begotten Son ; 
 that whosoever believeth in 
 him, may not perish, but may 
 have life everlasting. For God 
 sent not his son into the world, 
 to judge the world, but that the 
 world may be saved by him. 
 He that believeth in him is 
 not judged. But he that doth 
 not believe, is already judged : 
 because he believeth not in the 
 name of the only begotten son 
 of God. And this is the judg- 
 ment : because the light is come 
 into the world, and men love 
 darkness rather than the light : 
 for their works were evil. For 
 every one that doth evil hateth 
 the light, and cometh not to the 
 light, that his works may not 
 be reproved. But he that doth 
 truth, cometh to the light, that 
 his works ma}^ be made mani- 
 fest, because they are done in 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 21 
 
 God. After these things Jesus 
 and his disciples came into the 
 land of Judea : and there he 
 abode witli them, and baptized. 
 4. Now John also was bap- 
 tizing in Ennon near Salira ; 
 because there was much water 
 there ; and they came and were 
 baptized. For John was not 
 yet cast into prison. And there 
 arose a question between some 
 of John's disciples and the Jews 
 concerning purification : And 
 they came to John, and said to 
 him : Rabbi, he that was with 
 thee beyond the Jordan, to 
 whom thou gavest testimony, 
 behold he baptizeth, and all 
 men come to him. John an- 
 swered and said : A man can- 
 not receive any thing, unless it 
 be given him from heaven. 
 You 3"ourselves do bear me wit- 
 ness, that I said, I am not 
 Christ, but that I am sent be- 
 fore him. He that hath the 
 bride, is the bridegroom : but 
 the friend of the bridegroom, 
 who standeth and heareth him, 
 rejoiceth with joy because of the 
 bridegroom's voice. This my 
 joy therefore is fulfilled. He 
 must increase, but I must de- 
 crease. He that cometh from 
 above, is above all. He that is 
 of the earth, of the earth he is, 
 and of the earth he speaketh. 
 He that cometh from heaven, is 
 above all. And what he hath 
 seen and heard, that he testi- 
 fieth : and no man receiveth his 
 testimony. He that hath re- 
 ceived his testimony, hath set 
 to his seal that God is true. 
 For he whom God hath sent, 
 
 ' speaketh the words of God : for 
 I God doth not give the spirit by 
 ' measure. The Father loveth 
 the Son : and he hath given all 
 things into his hand. He that 
 belie vet h in the Son, hath life 
 everlasting ; but he that be- 
 lie veth not the Son, shall not 
 see life ; but the wrath of God 
 abideth on him. 
 
 (John 4.) When Jesus there- 
 fore understood that the Phari- 
 sees had heard that Jesus mak- 
 eth more disciples, and baptiz- 
 eth more than John, (Though 
 Jesus himself did not baptize, 
 but his disciples,) He left Ju- 
 dea, and went again into Gali- 
 lee. 
 
 5. (Luke 3.) But Herod 
 the tetrarch, when he was re- 
 proved by John for Herodias, 
 his brother's wife, and for all 
 the evils which Herod had 
 done ; He added this also 
 above all, and shut up John in 
 prison. 
 
 6. (John 4. A. D. 31.) Now 
 Jesus was of necessity to pass 
 through Samaria. He cometh 
 therefore to a city of Samaria, 
 which is called Sichar, near the 
 land which Jacob gave to his 
 son Joseph. Now Jacob's well 
 was there. Jesus therefore be- 
 ing wearied with his journey, 
 sat thus on the well. It was 
 about the sixth hour. There 
 cometh a woman of Samaria, to 
 draw water. Jesus saith to 
 her : give me to drink. For 
 his disciples were gone into the 
 city to buy meats. Then that 
 Samaritan woman saith to him : 
 How dost thou, being a Jew, 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 ask of me to drink, who am a 
 Samaritan woman ? For the 
 Jews do not communicate with 
 the Samaritans. Jesus an- 
 swered, and said to her : If 
 thou didst know the gift of 
 God, and who he is that saith 
 to thee, Give me to drink ; thou 
 perhaps wouldst have asked of 
 him, and he would have given 
 thee living water. The woman 
 saith to him : Sir, thou hast 
 nothing wherein to draw, and 
 the well is deep ; from whence 
 then hast thou living water? 
 Art thou greater tlian our 
 father Jacob, who gave us the 
 well, and drank thereof himself, 
 and his children, and his cat- 
 tle ? Jesus answered, and said 
 to her: Whosoever drinketh 
 of this water, shall thirst 
 again ; but he that shall drink 
 of the water that I will give 
 him, shall not thirst for ever : 
 But the water that I will give 
 him, shall become in him a 
 fountain of water, springing up 
 into life everlasting. The wo- 
 man saith to him : Sir, give 
 me this water, that I may not 
 thirst, nor come hither to draw. 
 Jesus saith to her : Go, call 
 thy husband, and come hither. 
 The woman answered, and said : 
 I have no husband. Jesus said 
 to her : Thou hast said well, I 
 have no husband : For thou 
 hast had five husbands: and he 
 w^hom thou now hast, is not thy 
 husband. This thou hast said 
 truly. The woman saith to 
 him : Sir, I perceive that thou 
 art a prophet. Our fathers 
 adored on this mountain, and 
 
 you say, that at Jerusalem is 
 the place where men must adore. 
 Jesus saith to her : Woman, 
 believe me, that the hour 
 Cometh, when you shall neither 
 on this mountain, nor in Jeru- 
 salem, adore the Father. You 
 adore that which you know 
 not : we adore that which we 
 know; for salvation is of the 
 Jews. But the hour cometh, and 
 now is, when the true adorers 
 shall adore the Father in spirit 
 and in truth. For the Father 
 also seeketh such to adore 
 him. God is a spirit ; and they 
 that adore him, must adore him 
 in spirit and in truth. The 
 woman saith to him : I know 
 that the Messias cometh (who 
 is called Christ) ; therefore, 
 when he is come, he will tell us 
 a'U things. Jesus saith to her : 
 I am he, who am speaking with 
 thee. And immediately his dis- 
 ciples came ; and they won- 
 dered that he talked with the 
 woman. Yet no man said : 
 What seekest thou ? or, why 
 talkest thou with her? The 
 woman therefore left her water- 
 pot, and went her way into the 
 city, and saith to the men 
 there : Come, and see a man 
 who has told me all things 
 whatsoever I have done. Is 
 not he the Christ? They went 
 therefore out of the city, and 
 came unto him. In the mean- 
 time the disciples prayed him, 
 saying : Rabbi, eat. But he 
 said to them : I have meat 
 to eat, which you know not. 
 The disciples therefore said 
 one to another : Hath any man 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 ^3 
 
 brought him to eat? Jesus 
 saith to them : My meat is to 
 do the will of him that sent me, 
 that I may perfect his work. 
 Do not you say, There are yet 
 four months, and then the har- 
 vest Cometh ? Behold, I say to 
 you, lift up your eyes, and see 
 the countries ; for they are 
 white already to harvest. And 
 he that reapeth receiveth wages, 
 and gathereth fruit unto life 
 everlasting : that both he that 
 soweth, and he that reapeth, 
 may rejoice together. For in 
 this is the saying true : That 
 it is one man that soweth, and 
 it is another that reapeth. I 
 have sent you to reap that in 
 -which you did not labour: 
 others have laboured, and 3^ou 
 Lave entered into their labours.^ 
 Now of that city many of the 
 Samaritans believed in him, for 
 the word of the woman giving 
 testimony : He told me all 
 things whatsoever I have done. 
 So when the Samaritans were 
 come to him, they desired that 
 he would tarry there. And he 
 abode there two days. And 
 many more believed in him be- 
 cause of his own word. And 
 they said to the woman : We 
 now believe, not for thy say- 
 ing : for we ourselves have 
 heard him, and know that this 
 is indeed the Saviour of the 
 world. 
 
 7. Now after two daj^s, he 
 departed thence, and went into 
 Galilee. For Jesus himself 
 gave testimony that a prophet 
 hath no honour in his own 
 countr3\ And when he was 
 
 come into Galilee, the Galileans 
 received him, having seen all 
 the things he had done at Jeru- 
 salem on the festival day ; for 
 they also went to the festival 
 da3^ He came again therefore 
 into Cana of Galilee, where he 
 made the water wine. And 
 there was a certain ruler, 
 whose son was sick at Caphar- 
 naum. He having heard, that 
 Jesus was come from Judea 
 into Galilee, went to him, and 
 prayed him to come down, and 
 heal his son ; for he was at the 
 point of death. Jesus there- 
 fore said to him : Unless you 
 see signs and wonders, you be- 
 lieve not. The ruler saith to 
 him : Lord, come down before 
 that my son die. Jesus saith 
 to him : Go thy way ; thy son 
 liveth. The man believed the 
 word which Jesus said to him, 
 and went his wa3^ And as he 
 was going down, his servants 
 met him ; and they brought 
 word, saying, that his son lived. 
 He asked therefore of them the 
 hour wherein he grew better. 
 And they said to him : Yester- 
 day, at the seventh hour, the 
 fever left him. The father 
 therefore knew, that it was at 
 the same hour that Jesus said 
 to him, Thy son liveth; and 
 himself believed, and his whole 
 house. This is again the sec- 
 ond miracle that Jesus did, 
 when he was come out of Judea 
 into Galilee. 
 
 8. (Luke4. A.D. 31.) And 
 Jesus returned in the power of 
 the spirit, into Galilee, and the 
 fame of him went out through 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 the whole country. And he 
 taught in their synagogues, 
 saying; The time is accom- 
 plished, and the kingdom of 
 God is at hand : repent, and 
 believe tlie gospel. He was 
 magnified by all. And he came 
 to Nazareth, where he was 
 brought up : and he went into 
 the synagogue, according to his 
 custom, on the sabbath day ; 
 and he rose up to read. And 
 the book of Isaias the prophet 
 was delivered unto him. And 
 as he unfolded the book, he 
 found the place where it was 
 written : The spirit of the Lord 
 is upon me. Wherefore he hath 
 anointed me to preach the gospel 
 to the poor, he hath sent me to 
 heal the contrite of heart , To 
 preach deliverance to the cap- 
 tives, and sight to the blind, to 
 set at liberty them that are 
 bruised, to preach the accepta- 
 ble year of the Lord, and the 
 day of reward. And when he 
 had folded the book, he restored 
 it to the minister, and sat down. 
 And the eyes of all in the syna- 
 gogue were fixed on him. And 
 he began to say to them : This 
 day is fulfilled tliis scripture in 
 your ears. And all gave testi- 
 mony to him : and they won- 
 dered at the words of grace 
 that proceeded from his mouth, 
 and they said : Is not this the 
 son of Joseph ? And he said 
 to them : Doubtless you will 
 say to me this similitude : 
 Physician, heal thyself: as 
 great things as we have heard 
 done in Capharnaum, do also 
 here in thy own country. And 
 
 he said: Amen I say to yoii, 
 that no prophet is accepted in 
 his own country. In truth I 
 say to you, there were many 
 widows in the days of Elias in 
 Israel, when heaven was shut 
 up three years and six months, 
 when there was a great famine 
 throughout all the earth. And 
 to none of them was Elias sent, 
 but to Sarepta of Sidon, to a 
 widow woman. And there 
 were many lepers in Israel in 
 the time of Eliseus the prophet : 
 and none of them was cleansed 
 but Naaman the S3^rian. And 
 all they in the synagogue, hear- 
 ing these things, were filled 
 with anger. And they rose up 
 and thrust him out of the city ; 
 and they brought him to the 
 brow of the hill, whereon their 
 city was built, that they might 
 cast him down headlong. But 
 he passing through the midst 
 of them, went his way. 
 
 9. (Mat. 4. A. D. 31.)- Now 
 when Jesus had heard that 
 John was delivered up, he re- 
 tired into Galilee : And leaving 
 the city Nazareth, he came and 
 dwelt in Capharnaum on the 
 seacoast, in the borders of Zab- 
 ulon and of Nephthalim ; That 
 it might be fulfilled which was 
 said by Isaias the prophet : 
 Land of Zabulon and land of 
 Nephthalim, the way of the sea 
 beyond the Jordan, Galilee of 
 the Gentiles: 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, 
 
 (Mark 1.) And passing by 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST, 
 
 25 
 
 the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon 
 and Andrew his brother, cast- 
 ing nets into the sea (for they 
 were fishermen.) And Jesiis 
 said to them : Come after me, 
 and I will malve you to become 
 fishers of men. And immedi- 
 ately leaving their nets, they 
 followed him^ And going on 
 from thence a little farther, he 
 saw James the son of Zebedee, 
 and John his brother, who also 
 were mendino^ their nets in the 
 ship: And forthwith he called 
 them. And leavins: their father 
 Zebedee in the ship with his 
 hired men, they followed him. 
 
 10. Now they entered into 
 Capharnaum, and forthwith up- 
 on the sabbath days going into 
 the synagogue, he taught them. 
 And they were astonished at 
 his doctrine. For he was teach- 
 ing them as one having power, 
 and not as the scribes. And 
 there was in their synagogue a 
 man with an unclean spirit ; 
 and he cried out. Saying : What 
 have we to do with thee, Jesus 
 of Nazareth ? art thou come to 
 destroy us ? I know who thou 
 art, the Holy one of God. And 
 Jesus threatened him, saying : 
 Speak no more, and go out of 
 the man. And the unclean 
 spirit tearing him, and cr3'ing 
 out with a loud voice, went out 
 of him. And they were all 
 amazed, insomuch that they 
 questioned among themselves, 
 saying: What thing is this? 
 what is this new doctrine ? for 
 with power he commandeth 
 even the unclean spirits, and 
 they obey him. And the fame 
 
 of him was spread forthwith 
 into all the country of Galilee. 
 
 U. But immediately going 
 out of the synagogue they came 
 into the house of Simon and 
 Andrew, with James and John. 
 And Simon's wife's mother lay 
 in a fit of a fever : and forth- 
 with they tell him of her. And 
 coming to her, he lifted her up, 
 taking her by the hand ; and 
 immediately the fever left her, 
 and she ministered unto them. 
 
 (Luke 4.) And when the sun 
 was down, all they that had 
 any sick with divers diseases, 
 brought them to him. But he 
 laying his hands on every one 
 of them, healed them. And 
 devils went out from many, cry- 
 ing out and saying : Thou art 
 the son of God. And rebuking 
 them he suffered them not to 
 speak, for they knew that he 
 was Christ. And when it was 
 day, going out he went into a 
 desert place, and the multitudes 
 sought him, and came unto him : 
 and they stayed him that he 
 should not depart from them. 
 To whom he said : To other 
 cities also I must preach the 
 kingdom of God : for therefore 
 am I sent. And he was preach- 
 ing in the synagogues of Gali- 
 lee. 
 
 12. (Luke 5.) Now it came 
 to pass, that when the multi- 
 tudes pressed upon him to hear 
 the word of God, he stood by 
 the lake of Genesareth, And 
 saw two ships standing by the 
 lake : but the fishermen were 
 gone out of them, and were 
 washing their nets. And going 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST, 
 
 into one of the ships that was 
 Simon's, he desired him to draw 
 back a little from the land. 
 And sitting he taught the mul- 
 titudes out of the ship. Now 
 when he had ceased to speak, 
 be said to Simon : Launch out 
 into the deep, and let down 
 your nets for a draught. And 
 Simon answering said to him : 
 Master, we have laboured all 
 the niglit, and have taken noth- 
 ing : but at thy word I will let 
 down the net. And when they 
 bad done this, they enclosed a 
 very great multitude of fishes, 
 and their net broke. And they 
 beckoned to their partners that 
 were in the other ship, that they 
 should come and help them. 
 And they came, and filled both 
 the ships, so that they were al- 
 most sinking. Which when 
 Simon Peter saw, he fell down 
 at Jesus's knees, sajdng : De- 
 part from me, for I am a sinful 
 man, O Lord. For he was 
 wholly astonished, and all that 
 were with him, at the draught 
 of the fishes which they had 
 taken. And so were also James 
 and John the sons of Zebedee, 
 who were Simon's partners. 
 And Jesus saith to Simon : 
 Fear not : from henceforth thou 
 shalt catch men. And having 
 brought their ships to land, 
 leaving all things, they followed 
 him. 
 
 13. (Mark 1.) Now there 
 came a leper to him, beseeching 
 him, and kneeling down said to 
 him : If thou wilt, thou canst 
 make me clean. And Jesus 
 having compassion on him, 
 
 stretched forth his hand ; and 
 touching him, saith to him : I 
 will. Be .thou made clean. 
 And when he had spoken, im- 
 mediately the leprosy departed 
 from him, and he was made 
 clean. And he strictl}^ charged 
 him, and forthwith sent him 
 away. And he ^aith to him : 
 See thou tell no one ; but go, 
 shew th3'self to the high-priest, 
 and offer for thy cleansing the 
 things that Moses commanded, 
 for a testimony to them. But 
 he being gone out, began to 
 publish and to blaze abroad the 
 word : so that he could not 
 openly go into the cit}^ but 
 was without in desert places : 
 and they flocked to him from 
 all sides. 
 
 14. (Luke 5.) Now it came 
 to pass on a certain day, as he 
 sat teaching, that there were 
 also Pharisees and doctors of 
 the law sitting by, that were 
 come out of every town of Gal- 
 ileo, and Judea and Jerusalem: 
 and the power of the Lord was 
 to heal them. And behold, 
 men brought in a bed a man, 
 who had the palsy : and they 
 sought means to bring him in, 
 and to lay him before him. 
 And when they could not find 
 b}'' what way they might bring 
 him in, because of the multi- 
 tude, they went up upon the 
 roof, and let him down through 
 the tiles with his bed into the 
 midst before Jesus. Whose 
 faith when he saw, he said : 
 Man, thy sins are forgiven 
 thee. And the scribes and 
 Pharisees began to think, say- 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST, 
 
 27 
 
 ing; Who is this who speaketh 
 blasphemies? Who can forgive 
 sins, but God alone? And when 
 Jesus knew their thoughts, an- 
 swering, he said to them : What 
 is it you think in your hearts ? 
 Which is easier to say, Thy 
 sins are forgiven thee; or to 
 say. Arise and walk ? But that 
 you may know that the son of 
 man hath power on earth to 
 forgive sins (he saith to the 
 sick of the palsy) I say to 
 thee, Arise, take np thy bed, 
 and go into thy house. And 
 immediately rising up before 
 them, he took up the bed on 
 which he lay ; and he went 
 away to his own house, glorify- 
 ing God. And all were aston- 
 ished ; and they glorified God. 
 And they were filled with fear, 
 saying ; We have seen wonder- 
 ful things to-day. 
 
 15. (Mark 9.) And when Je- 
 sus passed on from thence, he 
 saw a man sitting in the custom- 
 house, named Matthew ; and he 
 saith to him : Follow me. And 
 he arose up and followed him. 
 
 (Luke 5.) And Levi made 
 him a great feast in his own 
 house; and there was a great 
 company of publicans, and of 
 others, that were at table with 
 them. But the Pharisees and 
 scribes murmured, saying to 
 
 his disciples : Why do you eat 
 and drink with publicans and 
 sinners ? And Jesus answering, 
 said to them : They that are 
 whole, need not the physician : 
 but they that are sick. I came 
 not to call the just, but sinners 
 to penance. And they said to 
 him : Why do the disciples of 
 John fast often, and make pra}'- 
 ers, and the disciples of the 
 Pharisees in like manner; but 
 thine eat and drink? To whom 
 he said : Can you make the 
 children of the bridegroom fast, 
 whilst the bridegroom is with 
 them ? But the days will come, 
 when the bridegroom shall be 
 taken away from them, then 
 shall they fast in those daj^s. 
 And he spoke also a similitude 
 to them : That no man putteth 
 a piece from a new garment 
 upon an old garment; other- 
 wise he both rendeth the new, 
 and the piece taken from the 
 new agreeth not with the old. 
 And no man putteth new wine 
 into old bottles : otherwise the 
 new wine will break the bottles, 
 and it will be spilled, and the 
 bottles will be lost. But new 
 wine must be put into new bot- 
 tles ; and both are preserved. 
 And no man drinking old, hath 
 presently a mind to new : for 
 he saith, The old is better. 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 MIRACLES, DOCTRINE AND PARABLES. 
 
 1. (John 5. A. D. 31.) Af- 
 ter these things was a festival 
 day of the Jews, and Jesus 
 went up to Jerusalem. Now 
 there is at Jerusalem a pond, 
 called Probatica, which in He- 
 brew is named Bethsaida, hav- 
 ing five porches. In these la}^ 
 a great multitude of sick, of 
 blind, of lame, of withered ; 
 waiting for the moving of the 
 water. And an Anoel of the 
 Lord descended at certain times 
 into the pond ; and the water 
 was moved. And he that went 
 down first into the pond after 
 the motion of the water, was 
 made whole, of whatsoever in- 
 firmity he lay under. And 
 there was a certain man there, 
 that had been eight and thirty 
 years under his infirmity. Him 
 when Jesus had seen lying, and 
 knew that he had been now a 
 long time, he saith to him ; 
 Wilt thou be made whole ? The 
 infirm man answered him : Sir, 
 I have no man, when the water 
 is troubled, to put me into the 
 pond. For whilst I am com- 
 ing, another goeth down before 
 me. Jesus saith to him : Arise, 
 take up thy bed, and walk. 
 And immediately the man was 
 made whole: and he took up 
 his bed, and walked. And it 
 was the sabbath that da3^ The 
 Jews therefore said to him that 
 was healed : It is the sabbath ; 
 
 it is not lawful for thee to take 
 up thy bed. He answered 
 them : He that made me whole, 
 he said to me, Take up thy bed, 
 and walk. They asked him 
 therefore : Who is that man 
 who said to thee. Take up thy 
 bed, and walk? But he who 
 was healed, knew not who it 
 was ; for Jesus went aside from 
 the multitude standing in the 
 place. Afterwards, Jesus find- 
 eth him in the temple, and saith 
 to him : Behold thou art made 
 whole : sin no more, lest some 
 worse thing happen to thee. 
 The man went his way, and 
 told the Jews, that it was Je- 
 sus who had made him whole. 
 Therefore did the Jews perse- 
 cute Jesus, because he did these 
 things on the sabbath. But 
 Jesus answered them : My 
 Father worketh until now ; and 
 I work. Hereupon therefore 
 the Jews sought the more to 
 kill him, because he did not 
 only break the sabbath, but also 
 said God was his Father, mak- 
 ing himself equal to God. 
 
 2. Then Jesus answered, 
 and said to them : Amen, amen, 
 I say unto you, the Son cannot 
 do any thing of himself, but 
 what he seeth the father doing : 
 for what things soever he doth, 
 these the Son also doth in like 
 manner. For the Father lov- 
 eth the Son, and sheweth him 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST, 
 
 29 
 
 all things which himself doth ; 
 and greater works than these 
 will he shew him, that you may 
 wonder. For as the Father 
 raiseth up the dead, and giveth 
 life : so the Son also giveth life 
 to whom he will. For neither 
 doth the Father judge any man, 
 but hath given all judgment to 
 the Son. That all men may 
 honour the Son, as they honour 
 the Father. He who honour- 
 eth not the Son, honoureth not 
 the Father, who hath sent him. 
 Amen, amen, I say unto you, 
 that he who heareth my word, 
 and believeth him that sent me, 
 hath life everlasting ; and com- 
 eth not into judgment, but is 
 passed from death to life. 
 Amen, amen, I say unto you, 
 that the hour coraeth, and now 
 is, when the dead shall hear 
 the voice of the Son of God, 
 and they that hear shall live. 
 For as the Father hath life in 
 himself, so he hath given to the 
 Son also to have life in him- 
 self: And he hath given him 
 power to do judgment, because 
 he is the son of man. Wonder 
 not at this ; for the hour Com- 
 eth, wherein all that are in the 
 graves shall hear the voice of 
 the Son of God. And they 
 that have done good things, 
 shall come forth unto the resur- 
 rection of life ; but they that 
 have done evil, unto the resur- 
 rection of judgment. I cannot 
 of myself do any thing. As I 
 hear, so I judge : and my judg- 
 ment is just; because I seek 
 not my own will, but the will 
 of him that sent me. If I bear 
 
 witness of myself, my witness 
 is not true. There is another 
 that beareth witness of me; 
 and I know that the witness 
 which he witnesseth of me is 
 true. You sent to John, and 
 he gave testimony to the truth. 
 But I receive not testimony 
 from man ; but I say these 
 things, that you may be saved. 
 He was a burning and a shin- 
 ing light ; and 3^ou were willing 
 for a time to rejoice in his light. 
 But I have a greater testimony 
 than that of John : for the 
 works which the Father hath 
 given me to perfect ; the works 
 themselves, which I do, give 
 testimony of me, that the Father 
 hath sent me. And the Father 
 himself who hath sent me, hath 
 given testimony of me : neither 
 have you heard his voice at 
 any time, nor seen his shape. 
 And you have not his word 
 abiding in j-ou : for whom he 
 hath sent, him you believe not. 
 Search the Scriptures, for you 
 think in them to have life ever- 
 lasting ; and the same are they 
 that give testimony of me. And 
 you will not come to me that 
 you may have life. I receive 
 not glory from men. But I 
 know you, that you have not 
 the love of God in you. I am 
 come in the name of m}' Father, 
 and you receive me not : if an- 
 other shall come in his own 
 name, him you will receive. 
 How can you believe, who re- 
 ceive glory one from another : 
 and the glory which is from 
 God alone, you do not seek? 
 Think not that I will accuse 
 
30 
 
 LIFE OF CHRIST, 
 
 you to the Father. There is 
 one that aecuseth you, Moses, 
 in whom you trust. For if you 
 did believe Moses you would 
 perhaps believe me also ; for he 
 wrote of me. But if you do 
 not believe his writings, how 
 will you believe my words? 
 
 3. (Mat. 12.) At that time 
 Jesus went through the corn on 
 the sabbath : and his disciples 
 being hungry, began to pluck 
 the ears, and to eat. And the 
 Pharisees seeing them, said to 
 him : Behold thy disciples do 
 that which is not lawful to do 
 on the sabbath days. But he 
 said to them : have you not 
 read what David did when he 
 was hungry, and they that were 
 with him : How he entered 
 into the house of God, and did 
 eat the loaves of proposition, 
 which it was not lawful for 
 him to eat, nor for them that 
 were with him, but for the 
 priests only ? Or have ye not 
 read in the law, that on the 
 sabbath daj^s the priests in the 
 temple break the sabbath, and 
 are without blame ? But I tell 
 you that there is here a greater 
 than the temple. And if you 
 knew what this meaneth : / 
 will have mercy ^ and not sacri- 
 Jice: you would never have 
 condemned the innocent. For 
 the son of man is Lord even of 
 the sabbath. 
 
 4. (A. D. 31.) Now when 
 he had passed from thence, he 
 came into their s3^nagogues. 
 And behold there was a man 
 who had a withered hand, and 
 they asked him, saying : Is it 
 
 lawful to heal on the sabbath 
 days ? that they might accuse 
 him. But he said to them: 
 What man shall there be 
 among you, that hath one 
 sheep : and if the same fall into 
 a pit on the sabbath day, will 
 he not take hold on it and lift 
 it up ? How much better is a 
 man than a sheep ? Therefore 
 it is lawful to do a good deed 
 on the sabbath days. Then he 
 saith to the man : Stretch forth 
 thy hand ; and he stretched it 
 forth, and it was restored to 
 health even as the other. And 
 the Pharisees going out made a 
 consultation against him, how 
 they might destroy him. But 
 Jesus knowing it, retired from 
 thence : and many followed 
 him, and he healed them all. 
 And he charged them that they 
 should not make him known. 
 That it might be fulfilled which 
 was spoken by Isaias the 
 prophet, sajMug : Behold my 
 servant whom I have chosen^ 
 my beloved in whom my soul 
 hath been well pleased. I 
 will put my spirit upon him, 
 and he shall shew judgment to 
 the gentiles. He shall not con- 
 tend^ nor cry outj neither 
 shall any man hear his voice in 
 the streets. The bruised reed 
 he shall not break: and smok- 
 ing flax he shall not extinguish : 
 till he send forth judgment unto 
 victory. And in his name the 
 gentiles shall hope. 
 
 5. (Luke 6.) Now it came 
 to pass in those days, that he 
 went out into a mountain to 
 pray, and he passed the whole 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
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 night in the pra^^er of God. 
 And when day was come, he 
 called unto him his disciples ; 
 And he chose twelve of them 
 (whom also he named Apostles) : 
 Simon, whom he surnamed 
 Peter, and Andrew his brother, 
 James and John, Philip and 
 Bartholomew, Matthew and 
 Thomas^ James the son of Al- 
 pheus,and Simon who is called 
 Zelotes, And Jude, the brother 
 of James, and Judas Iscariot, 
 who was the traitor. 
 
 6. Now coming down with 
 them, he stood in. a plain place, 
 and the company of his dis- 
 ciples, and a very great multi- 
 tude of people from all Judea 
 and Jerusalem, and the sea- 
 coast both of Tyre and Sidon, 
 who were come to hear him, 
 and to be healed of their dis- 
 eases. And they that were 
 troubled w^ith unclean spirits, 
 were cured. And all the mul- 
 titude sought to touch him, for 
 virtue went out from him, and 
 healed all. 
 
 7. (Mat. 5.) But he, lifting 
 up his eyes on his disciples, 
 said : Blessed are the poor in 
 spirit: for theirs is the king- 
 dom of heaven. Blessed are 
 the meek: for they shall pos- 
 sess the land. Blessed are 
 they that mourn : for they shall 
 be comforted. Blessed are they 
 that hunger and thirst after 
 justice: for they shall have 
 their fill. Blessed are the 
 merciful : for the}^ shall obtain 
 mercy. Blessed are the clean 
 of heart : for they shall see 
 God. Blessed are the peace- 
 
 makers : for they shall be called 
 the children of God. Blessed 
 are they that sufler persecu- 
 tion for justice' sake : for theirs 
 is the kingdom of heaven. 
 Blessed are ye when thej^ shall 
 revile. you, and persecute you, 
 and speak all that is evil against 
 you, untruly, for my sake : 
 Be glad and rejoice, for your 
 reward is very great in heaven. 
 For so they persecuted the 
 prophets that were before you. 
 
 8. 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. 
 You are the light of the world. 
 A city seated on a mountain 
 cannot be hid. Neither do men 
 light a candle and put it under 
 a bushel, but upon a candle- 
 stick, that it may shine to all 
 that are in the house. So let 
 your light shine before men, 
 that they may see your good 
 works, and glorify your Father 
 who is in heaven. 
 
 9. Do not think that I am 
 come to destroy the law, or the 
 prophets. I am not come to 
 destrov, but to fulfill. For 
 amen I say unto you, till heav- 
 en and earth pass, one jot, or 
 one tittle shall not pass of the 
 law, till all be fulfilled. He 
 therefore that shall break one 
 of these least commandments, 
 and shall so teach men, shall be 
 called the least in the kingdom 
 of heaven. But he that shall 
 do and teach, he shall be called 
 great in the kingdom of heaven. 
 
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 For I tell you, that unless your 
 justice abound more than that 
 of the Scribes and Pharisees, 
 you shall not enter into the 
 kinGjdom of heaven. You have 
 heard that it was said to them 
 of old : thou shall not kill. 
 And whosoever shall kill shall 
 be in danger of the judgment. 
 But I say to you, that whoso- 
 ever is angry with his brother, 
 shall be in danger of the judg- 
 ment. And whosoever shall 
 say to his brother, Raca, shall 
 be in danger of the council. 
 And whosoever shall say. Thou 
 fool, shall be in danger of hell 
 fire. If therefore thou offer 
 thy gift at the altar, and there 
 thou remember that thy brother 
 hath any thing against thee ; 
 Leave there thy offering before 
 the altar, and go first to be 
 reconciled to thy brother : and 
 then coming thou shalt offer 
 thy gift. Be at agreement with 
 thy adversary betimes, whilst 
 thou art in the way with him: 
 lest perhaps the adversary de- 
 liver thee to the judge, and the 
 judge deliver thee to the officer, 
 and thou be cast into prison. 
 Amen I say to thee, thou shalt 
 not go out from thence till thou 
 re-pay the last farthing. 
 
 10. You have heard that it 
 was said to them of old : Thou 
 shalt not commit adultery. 
 But I say to you, that whoso- 
 ever shall looit on a woman to 
 lust after her, hath already 
 committed adultery with her in 
 his heart. And if thy right 
 eye scandalize thee, pluck it 
 out and cast it from thee. For 
 
 it is expedient for thee that one 
 of thy members should perish, 
 rather than thy whole body be 
 cast into hell. And if thy right 
 hand scandalize thee, cut it off, 
 and cast it from thee : for it is 
 expedient for thee that one of 
 thy members should perish, 
 rather than that thy whole body 
 go into hell. 
 
 11. Again 3^ou have heard 
 that it was said to them of old, 
 Thou shalt not forswear thy- 
 self: but thou shalt perform thy 
 oaths to the Lord. But I say 
 to you not to sw^ear at all, 
 neither by heaven, for it is the 
 throne of God : Nor by the 
 earth, for it is his footstool : 
 nor by Jerusalem, for it is the 
 city of the great king : Neith- 
 er shalt thou swear by thy 
 head, because thou canst not 
 make one hair white or black. 
 But let 3^our speech be yea, 
 yea : no, no : and that which is 
 over and above these, is of evil. 
 
 12. You have heard that it 
 hath been said. An eye for an 
 eye, and a tooth for a tooth. 
 But I say to you not to resist 
 evil : but if one strike thee on 
 thy right cheek, turn to him 
 also the other : And if a man 
 will contend with thee in judg- 
 ment, and take away thy coat, 
 let go thy cloak also unto him. 
 And whosoever will force thee 
 one mile, go with him other 
 two. Give to him that asketh 
 of thee, and from him that would 
 borrow of thee turn not awa3\ 
 
 13. (A. D. 31.) You have 
 heard that it hath been 
 said. Thou shalt love thy 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
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 neighbour, and hate thy enemy. 
 But I say to you, Love your 
 enemies : do good to them tbat 
 hate 3'ou : and pray for them 
 that persecute and calumniate 
 you : That you may be the 
 children of 3"our Father who is 
 in heaven, who maketh his sun 
 to rise upon the good, and bad, 
 and raineth upon the just and 
 the unjust. For if you love 
 them that love you, what re- 
 ward shall you have ? do not 
 even the jjublicans this ? And 
 if you salute your brethren 
 onl}^, what do you more ? do 
 not also the heathens this ? Be 
 3"ou therefore perfect, as also 
 your heavenly Father is perfect. 
 
 14. (Mat. 6.) Take heed 
 that you do not your justice be- 
 fore men, to be seen by them : 
 otherwise you shall not have a 
 reward of your Father who is 
 in heaven. Therefore when 
 thou dost an alms-deed, sound 
 not a trumpet before thee, as 
 the hj^pocrites do in the sjma- 
 gogues and in the streets, that 
 they may be honoured by men. 
 Amen I say to you, they have 
 received their reward. But 
 when thou dost alms, let not 
 thy left hand know what thy 
 right hand doth. That thy 
 alms may be in secret, and thy 
 Father who seeth in secret will 
 repay thee. 
 
 15. And when ye pray, you 
 shall not be as the hypocrites, 
 that love to stand and pray in 
 the synagogues and corners of 
 the streets, that they may be 
 seen by men: Amen I say to 
 you, they liave received their 
 
 reward. But thou when thou 
 sbalt pray, enter into thy cham- 
 ber, and having shut the door, 
 pray to thy Father in secret : 
 and thy Father who seeth in 
 secret will repay thee. And 
 when you are praying, speak 
 not much, as the heathens. 
 For the}^ think that in their 
 much speaking they may be 
 heard. Be not 3'ou therefore 
 like to them, for your Father 
 knoweth what is needful for 
 you, before you ask him. 
 
 16. And when you fast, be 
 not as the hypocrites, sad. 
 For they disfigure their faces, 
 that they may appear unto men 
 to fast. Amen I say to you, 
 they have received their reward. 
 But thou, when thou fastest 
 anoint thy head, and wash thy 
 face ; That thou appear not to 
 men to fast, but to thy Father 
 who is in secret : and thy 
 Father who seeth in secret, 
 will repay thee. 
 
 n. (Mat. 7.) Judge not, 
 that you may not be judged. 
 For with what judgment you 
 judge, you shall be judged : and 
 with what measure you mete, it 
 shall be measured to you again. 
 And why seest thou the mote 
 that is in thy brother's eye ; 
 and seest not the beam that is 
 in thy own eye ? Or how say- 
 est thou to thy brother: Let 
 me cast the mote out of thy 
 eye; and behold a beam is in 
 tiiy own eye ? Thou hypocrite, 
 cast out first the beam out of 
 thy own e^^e, and then shalt 
 thou see to cast out the mote 
 out of thy brother's eye. 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 18. (Luke 6.) Give, and it 
 shall be giveu to you : good 
 measure and pressed down and 
 shaken together and running 
 over shall they give into your 
 bosom. For with the same 
 measure that you shall mete 
 withal, it shall be measured to 
 you again. And he spoke also 
 to them a similitude : Can the 
 blind lead the blind? do they 
 not both fall into the ditch? 
 The disciple is not above his 
 master : but every one shall be 
 perfect, if he be as his master. 
 
 19. (Mat. 7.) Give not that 
 which is holy to dogs ; neither 
 cast ye your pearls before swine, 
 lest perhaps they trample them 
 under their feet, and turning 
 upon you, they tear 3^ou. Ail 
 things therefore whatsoever 
 you would that men should do 
 to you, do you also to them. 
 For this is the law and the 
 prophets. 
 
 20. Enter ye in at the nar- 
 row gate: for wide is the gate, 
 and broad is the way that lead- 
 eth to destruction, and many 
 there are who go in thereat. 
 How narrow is the gate, and 
 strait is the way that leadeth 
 to life : and few there are that 
 find it I 
 
 21. Beware of false prophets, 
 who come to j'ou in the cloth- 
 ing of sheep, but inwardly they 
 are ravening wolves. By their 
 fruits you shall know them. 
 Do men gather grapes of thorns, 
 or figs of thistles? Even so 
 every good tree bringeth forth 
 good fruit, and the evil tree 
 bringeth forth evil fruit. A 
 
 good tree cannot bring forth 
 evil fruit, neither can an evil 
 tree bring forth good fruit. 
 Every tree that bringeth not 
 forth good fruit, shall be cut 
 down, and shall be cast into the 
 fire. Wherefore by their fruits 
 you shall know them. Not 
 every one that saith to me, 
 Lord, Lord, shall enter into the 
 kingdom of heaven : but he 
 that doth the will of my Father 
 who is in heaven, he shall enter 
 into the kingdom of heaven. 
 Many will say to me in that 
 day : Lord, Lord, have not we 
 prophesied in thy name, and 
 cast out devils in thy name, 
 and done many miracles in thy 
 name? And then will I pro- 
 fess unto them, I never knew 
 you : depart from me, you that 
 work iniquity. 
 
 22. Every one therefore 
 that heareth these my words, 
 and doth them, shall be likened 
 to a wise man that built his 
 house upon a rock, And the 
 rain fell, and the floods came, 
 and the winds blew, and they 
 beat upon that house, and it 
 fell not, for it was founded on a 
 rock. And every one that 
 heareth these my words, and 
 doth them not, shall be like a 
 foolish man that built his house 
 upon the sand. And the rain 
 fell, and the floods came, and 
 the winds blew, and they beat 
 upon that house, and it fell, 
 and great was the fall thereof. 
 And it came to pass when 
 Jesus had fully ended these 
 words, the people were in ad- 
 miration at his doctrine. For 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST, 
 
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 he was teaching them as one 
 having power, and not as the 
 scribes and Pharisees. 
 
 23. (Luke 7.) Now when 
 he had finished all his words in 
 the hearing of the people, he 
 entered into Capharnaum. And 
 the servant of a certain cen- 
 turion, who was dear to him, 
 being sick, was ready to die. 
 And when he had heard of 
 Jesus, he sent unto him the 
 ancients of the Jews, desiring 
 him to come and heal his serv- 
 ant. And when they came to 
 Jesus, they besought him 
 earnestly, saying to him : He is 
 worthy that thou shouldest do 
 this for him. For he loveth 
 our nation ; and he hath built 
 us a synagogue. And Jesus 
 went with them. And when he 
 was now not far from the house, 
 the centurion sent his friends 
 to him, saying: Lord, trouble 
 not thyself; for I am not 
 worthy that thou shouldest 
 enter under my roof. For 
 which cause neither did I think 
 mj^self worthy to come to thee ; 
 but say the word, and my serv- 
 ant shall be healed. For I also 
 am a man subject to authority, 
 having under me soldiers : and 
 I say to one. Go, and he goeth ; 
 and to another, Come, and he 
 Cometh ; and to my servant, 
 Do this, and he doth it. Which 
 Jesus hearing, marvelled : and 
 turning about to the multitude 
 that followed him, he said : 
 Amen I say to 3^ou, I have not 
 found so great faith, not even in 
 Israel. And they who were 
 sent, being returned to the 
 
 house, found the servant whole 
 who had been sick. 
 
 24. Now it came to pass 
 afterwards, that he went into a 
 city that is called Naim ; and 
 there went with him his dis- 
 ciples, and a great multitude. 
 And when he came nigh to the 
 gate of the city, behold a dead 
 man was carried out, the onlv 
 son of his mother ; and she 
 was a widow : and a great mul- 
 titude of the cit}^ was with her. 
 Whom when the Lord had 
 seen, being moved with mercy 
 towards her, he said to her : 
 Weep not. And he came near 
 and touched the bier. And 
 they that carried it, stood still. 
 And he said: Young man, I 
 say to thee, arise. And he that 
 was dead, sat up, and began to 
 speak. And he gave him to 
 his mother. And there came a 
 fear on them all : and they 
 glorified God, saying : A great 
 prophet is risen up among us : 
 and, God hath visited his peo- 
 ple. And this rumour of him 
 went forth throughout all 
 Judea, and throughout all the 
 country round about. And 
 John's disciples told him of all 
 these things. 
 
 25. Now John called to 
 him two of his disciples, and 
 sent them to Jesus, saying : 
 Art thou he that art to come ; 
 or look we for another ? And 
 when the men were come unto 
 him, the}'' said: John the Bap- 
 tist hath sent us to thee, sa}^- 
 ing : art thou he that art to 
 come ; or look we for another ? 
 (And in that same hour, he 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 cured many of their diseases, 
 and hurts, and evil spirits : 
 and to many that were blind he 
 gave sight.) And answering, 
 he said to tliem : Go and relate 
 to John what you have heard 
 and seen : The blind see, the 
 lame walk, the lepers are made 
 clean, the deaf hear, the dead rise 
 again, to the poor the gospel is 
 preached : And blessed is he 
 whosoever shall not be scandal- 
 ized in me. 
 
 26. (A. D.31.) Now when 
 the messengers of John were 
 departed, he began to speak to 
 the multitudes concerning John. 
 What went ye out into the de- 
 sert to see ? a reed shaken with 
 the wind ? But what went you 
 out to see? a man clothed in 
 soft garments? Behold they 
 that are in costly apparel and 
 live delicately, are in the 
 houses of kings. But what 
 went you out to see ? a proph- 
 et? Yea, I say to you, and 
 more than a prophet. This is 
 he of whom it is written : Be- 
 hold I send my angel before thy 
 face^ ivho shall prepare thy way 
 before thee. For I say to you : 
 Amongst those that are born 
 of women, there is not a great- 
 er prophet than John the Bap- 
 tist. But he that is the lesser 
 in the kingdom of God, is 
 greater than he. And all the 
 people hearing, and the publi- 
 cans, justified God, being bap- 
 tized with John's baptism. 
 But the Pharisees and the law- 
 yers despised the counsel of 
 God against themselves, being 
 not baptized by him. And the 
 
 Lord said: Whereunto then 
 shall I liken the men of this 
 generation ? and to what are 
 they like? They are like to 
 children sitting in the market- 
 place, and speaking one to an- 
 other, and saying : We have 
 piped to you, and you have not 
 danced : we have mourned, and 
 you have not wept. For John 
 the Baptist came neither eat- 
 ing bread nor drinking wine; 
 and you say : He hath a devil. 
 The Son of man is come eating 
 and drinking : and you say : 
 Behold a man that is a glutton 
 and a drinker of wine, a friend 
 of publicans and sinners. And 
 wisdom is justified by all her 
 children. 
 
 27. Now one of the Phari- 
 sees desired him to eat with 
 him. And he went into the 
 house of the Pharisee, and sat 
 down to meat. And behold a 
 woman that was in the city, a 
 sinner, when she knew that he 
 sat at meat in the Pharisee's 
 house, brought an alabaster- 
 box of ointment; And stand- 
 ing behind at his feet, she be- 
 gan to wash his feet, with tears, 
 and wiped them with the hairs 
 of her head, and kissed his 
 feet, and anointed them with 
 the ointment. And the Phari- 
 see, who had invited him, see- 
 ing it, spoke within himself, 
 saying : This man, if he were a 
 prophet, would know surely 
 who and what manner of woman 
 this is that toucheth him, that 
 she is a sinner. And Jesus an- 
 swering, said to him : Simon, I 
 have somewhat to say to thee. 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 37 
 
 But he said : Master, say it. A 
 certain creditor bad two debt- 
 ors, the one owed five hundred 
 pence, and the other fifty. And 
 whereas they had not where- 
 with to pay, he forgave them 
 both. Which therefore of the 
 two loveth him most ? 8imon 
 answering said : I suppose that 
 he to whom he forgave most. 
 And he said to him : Thou hast 
 judged rightly. And turning 
 to the woman, he said unto 
 Simon : Dost thou see this 
 woman ? I entered into thy 
 house, thou gavest me no 
 water for my feet ; but she with 
 tears hath washed my feet, and 
 with her hairs hath wiped 
 them. Thou gavest me no 
 kiss ; but she, since she came 
 in, hatli not ceased to liiss my 
 feet. My head with oil thou 
 didst not anoint; but she with 
 ointment hath anointed my 
 feet. Wherefore I say to thee : 
 Many sins are forgiven her, be- 
 cause she hath loved much. 
 But to whom less is forgiven, 
 he loveth less. And he said to 
 her : Thy sins are forgiven 
 thee. And they that sat at 
 meat with him began to say 
 within themselves : Who is this 
 that forgiveth sins also ? And 
 he said to the woman : Thy 
 faith hath made thee safe, go in 
 peace. 
 
 28. (Luke 8.) Now it 
 came to pass afterwards, that 
 he travelled through the cities 
 and towns, preaching and 
 evangelizing the kingdom of 
 God ; and the twelve with him. 
 And certain women who had 
 
 been healed of evil spirits and 
 infirmities; Mary who is called 
 Magdalen, out of whom seven 
 devils were gone forth. And 
 Joanna the wife of Chusa, 
 Herod's steward, and Susanna, 
 and many others who minis- 
 tered unto him of their sub- 
 stance followed him. 
 
 (Mark 3.) And they come 
 to a house, and the multitude 
 Cometh together again, so that 
 they could not so much as eat 
 bread. And when his friends 
 had heard of it, they went out 
 to lay hold on him. For they 
 said : He is become mad. And 
 the scribes who were come 
 down from Jerusalem, said: 
 He hath Beelzebub, and by the 
 prince of devils he casteth out 
 devils. And after he had 
 called them together, he said to 
 them in parables : How can 
 satan cast out satan ? And if a 
 kingdom be divided against it- 
 self, that kingdom cannot 
 stand. And if a house be 
 divided against itself, that 
 house cannot stand. And if 
 satan be risen up against him- 
 self, he is divided, and cannot 
 stand, but hath an end. No 
 man can enter into the house of 
 a strong man and rob him of 
 his goods, unless he first bind 
 the strong man, and then shall 
 he plunder his house. Amen I 
 say to you, that all sins shall 
 be forgiven unto the sons of 
 men, and the blasphemies where- 
 with they shall blaspheme : 
 But he that shall blaspheme 
 against the Holy Ghost, shall 
 never have forgiveness, but 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST, 
 
 shall be g-nilty of an everlast- 
 ing sin. Because they said: 
 He hath an unclean spirit. 
 
 29. Now his mother and 
 his brethren came ; and stand- 
 ing without, sent unto him, 
 calling him. And the multi- 
 tude sat about him ; and they 
 say to him : Behold thy moth- 
 er and thy brethren without 
 seek for thee. And answering 
 them, he said : Who is my 
 mother and my brethren ? And 
 looking round about on them 
 who sat about him, he saith : 
 Behold my mother and my 
 brethren. For whosoever shall 
 do the will of God, he is my 
 brother, and my sister, and 
 mother. 
 
 30. (Luke 8.) Now when 
 a very great multitude was gath- 
 ered together, and hastened 
 out of the cities unto him, he 
 spoke by a similitude. The 
 sower went out to sow his seed. 
 And as he sowed, some fell by 
 the Wayside, and it was trod- 
 den down, and the fowls of the 
 air devoured it. And other 
 some fell upon a rock : and as 
 soon as it was sprung up, it 
 withered away, because it had 
 no moisture. And other some 
 fell among thorns, and the 
 thorns growing up with it, 
 choked it. And other some 
 fell upon good ground ; and 
 being sprung up, yielded fruit 
 a hundredfold. Saying these 
 things, he cried out : He that 
 hath ears to hear, let him hear. 
 And his disciples asked him 
 what this parable might be. 
 To whom he said : To you it is 
 
 given to know the mystery of 
 the kingdom of God ; but to 
 the rest in parables, that see- 
 ing they may not see, and hear- 
 ing may not understand. Now 
 the -parable is this : The seed is 
 the word of God. And they 
 by the wayside are they that 
 hear, then the devil cometh, 
 and taketh the word out of 
 their heart, lest believing they 
 should be saved. Now they 
 upon the rock; are they who 
 when they hear, receive the 
 word with joy : and these have 
 no roots ; for they believe for a 
 while, and in time of tempta- 
 tion, they fall awa3^ And that 
 which fell among thorns, are 
 they who have heard, and go- 
 ing their way are choked with 
 the cares and riches and pleas- 
 ures of this life, and yield no 
 fruit. But that on the good 
 ground, are they who in a good 
 and ver}'' good heart, hearing 
 the word, keep it, and bring 
 forth fruit in patience. 
 
 31. Now no man lighting a 
 candle covereth it with a vessel, 
 or putteth it under a bed ; but 
 setteth it upon a candlestick, 
 that they who come in ma}'^ see 
 the light. For there is not 
 any thing secret that shall not 
 be made manifest, nor hidden, 
 that shall not be known and 
 come abroad. Take heed there- 
 fore how you hear. For who- 
 soever hath, to him shall be 
 given : and wliosoever hath not, 
 that also which he thinketh he 
 hath, shall be taken away from 
 him. 
 
 32. (Mark 4.) And he said: 
 
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 So is the kingdom of God, as if 
 a man sboiikl cast seed into the 
 earth, And should sleep, and 
 rise, night and day, and the 
 seed should spring, and grow 
 up whilst he knoweth not. For 
 the earth of itself bringeth 
 forth fruit, first the blade, then 
 the ear, afterwards the full corn 
 in the ear. And when the 
 fruit is brought forth, imme- 
 diately he putteth in the sickle, 
 because the harvest is come. 
 
 33. (Mat. 13.) Another 
 parable he proposed to them, 
 saying : The kingdom of heaven 
 is likened to a man that sowed 
 good seed in his field. But 
 while men were asleep, his 
 enemy came and oversowed 
 cockle among the wheat and 
 went his way. And when the 
 blade was sprung up, and had 
 brought forth fruit, then ap- 
 peared also the cockle. And 
 the servants of the goodman of 
 the house coming said to him : 
 Sir, didst thou not sow good 
 seed in thy field ? whence then 
 hath it cockle? And he said 
 to them : An enemy hath done 
 this. And the servants said to 
 him : Wilt thou that we go and 
 gather it up? And he said: 
 No, lest perhaps gathering up 
 the cockle, you root up the 
 wheat also together with it. 
 Suffer both to grow until the 
 harvest, and in the time of the 
 harvest I will say to the reap- 
 ers: Gather up first the cockle, 
 and bind it into bundles to 
 burn, but the wheat gather ye 
 into my barn. All these things 
 Jesus si^oke in parables to the 
 
 multitudes: and without para- 
 bles he did not speak to them. 
 That it might be fulfilled which 
 was spoken by the prophet, 
 saying : / will open my mouth 
 in parables^ I ivill utter' things 
 hidden from the foundation of 
 the world. Then having sent 
 away the multitudes, he came 
 into the house, and his disciples 
 came to him, saying: Expound 
 to us the parable of the cockle 
 of the field. Who made an- 
 swer and said to them : He that 
 sow^eth the good seed, is the 
 son of man. And the field, is 
 the world. And the good seed 
 are the children of the king- 
 dom. And the cockle, are the 
 children of the wicked one. 
 And the enemy that sowed 
 them, is the devil. But the 
 harvest is the end of the world. 
 And the reapers are the angels. 
 Even as cockle therefore is 
 gathered up, and burnt with 
 fire : so shall it be at the end 
 of the world. The son of man 
 shall send his Angels, and they 
 shall gather out of his kingdom 
 all scandals, and them that 
 work iniquity, and shall cast 
 them into the furnace of fire : 
 there shall be w^eeping and 
 gnashing of teeth. Then shall 
 the just shine as the sun, in the 
 kingdom of their Father. He 
 that hath ears to hear, let him 
 hear. 
 
 34. The kingdom of heaven 
 is like unto a treasure hidden in 
 a field. Which a man having 
 found, hid it, and for joy thereof 
 goeth, and selleth all that he 
 hath, and buyeth that field. 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST, 
 
 35. Again the kingdom of 
 heaven is like to a merchant 
 seeking good pearls. Who 
 when he had found one pearl of 
 great price, went his way, and 
 sold all that he had, and bought 
 it. 
 
 36. Again the kingdom of 
 heaven is like to a net cast into 
 the sea, and gathering togeth- 
 er of all kind of fishes. Which, 
 when it was filled, they drew 
 out, and sitting by the shore, 
 they chose out the good into 
 vessels, but the bad they cast 
 forth. So shall it be at the end 
 of the world. The Angels shall 
 go out, and shall separate the 
 wicked from among the just. 
 And shall cast them into the 
 furnace of fire : there shall be 
 weeping and gnashing of teeth. 
 Have ye understood all these 
 things? They say to him: 
 Yes. He said unto them : 
 Therefore every scribe instruct- 
 ed in the kingdom of heaven, 
 is like to a man that is a house- 
 holder, who bringeth forth out 
 of his treasure new things and 
 old. 
 
 37. (Luke 8.) Now it came 
 to pass on a certain day that he 
 went into a little ship with his 
 disciples, and he said to them : 
 Let us go over to the other 
 side of the lake. And they 
 launched forth. And when 
 they were sailing, he slept : and 
 there came down a storm of 
 wind upon the lake, and they 
 were filled, and were in danger. 
 And they came and awaked 
 him, saying: Master, we per- 
 ish. But he arising, rebuked 
 
 the wind and the rage of the 
 water; and it ceased, and there 
 was a calm. And he said to 
 them: Where is your faith? 
 Who being afraid, wondered, 
 saying one to another : Who is 
 this (think you) that he com- 
 mandeth both the winds and 
 the sea, and they obey him ? 
 
 38. Now they sailed to the 
 country of the Gerasens, which 
 is over-against Galilee. And 
 when he was come forth to the 
 land, there met him a certain 
 man who had a devil now a 
 very long time, and he wore no 
 clothes, neither did he abide in 
 a house, but in the sepulchres. 
 And when he saw Jesus, he 
 fell down before him ; and cry- 
 ing out with a loud voice, he 
 said : What have I to do. 
 with thee, Jesus, Son of the 
 most high God? I beseech 
 thee do not torment me. For 
 he commanded the unclean 
 spirit to go out of the man. 
 For manj^ times it seized him, 
 and he was bound with chains, 
 and kept in fetters ; and break- 
 ing the bonds, he was driven by 
 the devil into the deserts. And 
 Jesus asked him, saj'ing : What 
 is thy name? But he said: 
 Legion; because many devils 
 were entered into him. And 
 they besought him that he 
 would not command them to go 
 into the abyss. And there was 
 there a herd of many swine 
 feeding on the mountain ; and 
 they besought him that he 
 would suffer them to enter into 
 them. And he suffered them. 
 The devils therefore went out 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 41 
 
 of the man, and entered into 
 the swine ; and the herd ran 
 violently down a steep place 
 into the lake, and was stifled. 
 Whicli when they that fed them 
 saw done, they fled, and told it 
 in the city and in the villages. 
 And they went out to see what 
 was done ; and they came to 
 Jesus, and found the man, out 
 of whom the devils were de- 
 parted, sitting at his feet, 
 clothed, and in his right mind ; 
 and they were afraid. And 
 they also that had seen, told 
 them how he had been healed 
 from the legion. And all the 
 multitude of the country of the 
 Gerasens besought him to de- 
 part from them ; for they were 
 taken with great fear ; And he, 
 going up into the ship, returned 
 back again. Now the man, 
 out of whom the devils were 
 departed, besought him that he 
 might be with him. But Jesus 
 sent him away, saying : Return 
 to thy house, and tell how 
 great things God hath done to 
 thee. And he "went through 
 the whole city, publishing how 
 great things Jesus had done to 
 him. 
 
 39, Now it came to pass, 
 that when Jesus was returned, 
 the multitude received him : for 
 they were all waiting for him. 
 And behold there came a man 
 whose name was Jairus, and he 
 was a ruler of the synagogue : 
 and he fell down at the feet of 
 Jesus, beseeching him that he 
 would come into his house : For 
 he had an only daughter, al- 
 most twelve years old, and she 
 
 was dying. And it happened 
 as he went, that he was thronged 
 by the multitudes. 
 '40. (A. D. 31.) Now there 
 was a certain woman having 
 an issue of blood twelve years, 
 who had bestowed all her sub- 
 stance on physicians, and could 
 not be healed by any. She 
 came behind him, and touched 
 the hem of his garment; and 
 immediately the issue of her 
 blood stopped. And Jesus said : 
 Who is it that touched me? 
 And all denying, Peter and 
 they that were with him said : 
 Master, the multitudes throng 
 and press thee, and dost thou 
 say. Who touched me? And 
 Jesus said : Some body hath 
 touched me ; for I know that vir- 
 tue is gone out from me. And 
 the woman seeing that she was 
 not hid, came trembling, and 
 fell down before his feet, and 
 declared before all the people 
 for what cause she had touched 
 him, and how she was immedi- 
 ately healed. But he said to 
 her : Daughter, thy faith hath 
 made thee whole; go thy way 
 in peace. 
 
 41. And as he was yet speak- 
 ing, there cometh one to the 
 ruler of the sjmagogue, saying 
 to him : Thy daughter is dead, 
 trouble him not. And Jesus 
 hearing this word, answered the 
 father of the maid : Fear not ; 
 believe only, and she shall be 
 safe. And when he was come 
 to the house, he suffered not 
 any man to go in with him, but 
 Peter and James and John, and 
 the father and mother of the 
 
42 
 
 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 maiden. And all wept and 
 mourned for her. But he said : 
 Weep not ; the maid is not 
 dead, but sleepeth. And they 
 laughed him to scorn, knowing 
 that she was dead. But he 
 taking her by the hand, cried 
 out, saying : Maid, arise. And 
 her spirit returned, and she 
 arose immediately. And he bid 
 them give her to eat. And her 
 parents were astonished, whom 
 he charged to tell no man what 
 was done. 
 
 42. (Mat. 9.) Now as Jesus 
 passed from thence, there fol- 
 lowed him two blind men cry- 
 ing out and saying, Have mere}" 
 on us, Son of David. And 
 when he was come to the house, 
 the blind men came to him. 
 And Jesus saith to them, Do 
 you believe, that I can do this 
 unto you? They say to him. 
 Yea, Lord. Then he touched 
 their e3^es, saying. According 
 to your faith, be it done unto 
 you. And their eyes were 
 opened, and Jesus strictly 
 charged them, saying. See that 
 no man know this. But they 
 going out, spread his fame 
 abroad in all that country. 
 
 43. Now when they were 
 gone out, behold they brought 
 him a dumb man, possessed 
 with a devil. And after the 
 devil was cast out, the dumb 
 man spoke, and the multitudes 
 wondered, saying. Never was 
 the like seen in Israel. But 
 the Pharisees said, By the 
 prince of devils he casteth out 
 devils. 
 
 44. (Mark 6.) Now going 
 
 out from thence, he went into 
 his own country ; and his dis- 
 ciples followed him. And when 
 the sabbath was come, he began 
 to teach in the synagogue : and 
 many hearing him were in ad- 
 miration at his doctrine, say- 
 ing : How came this man by all 
 these things ? and what wisdom 
 is this that is given to him, 
 and such might}^ works as are 
 wrought by his hands? Is not 
 this the carpenter, the son of 
 Mary, the brother of James, 
 and Joseph, and Jude, and 
 Simon? are not also his sisters 
 here with us ? And they were 
 scandalized in regard of him. 
 And Jesus said to them : A 
 prophet is not without honour, 
 but in his own country, and in 
 his own house, and among his 
 own kindred. 
 
 45. Now he could not do 
 any miracles there, only that 
 he cured a few that were sick, 
 la3'ing his hands upon them, 
 And he wondered because of 
 their unbelief, and he went 
 through the villages round 
 about teaching. 
 
 46. Now he called the 
 twelve ; and began to send them 
 two and two, and gave them 
 power over unclean spirits. 
 And he commanded them that 
 they should take nothing for 
 the way, but a staff only : no 
 scrip, no bread, nor money in 
 their purse. But to be shod 
 with sandals, and that they 
 should not put on two coats. 
 And he said to them : Where- 
 soever you shall enter into an 
 house, there abide till you de- 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST, 
 
 43 
 
 part from that place. And 
 whosoever shall not receive 
 you, nor hear you ; going forth 
 from thence, shake off the dust 
 from your feet for a testimony 
 to them. And going forth they 
 preached that men should do 
 penance : And they cast out 
 many devils, and anointed with 
 oil many tliat were sick, and 
 healed them. 
 
 47. Now king Herod heard : 
 (for his name was made mani- 
 fest) and he said: John the 
 Baptist is risen- again from 
 the dead, and therefore mighty 
 works shew forth themselves in 
 him. And others said: It is 
 Elias. But others said : It is 
 a prophet, as one of the proph- 
 ets. Which Herod hearing, 
 said : John whom I beheaded, 
 he is risen again from the dead. 
 For Herod himself had sent 
 and apprehended John, and 
 bound him in prison for the 
 sake of Herodias the wMfe 
 of Philip his brother, because 
 he had married her. For John 
 said to Herod : It is not lawful 
 for thee to have thy brother's 
 wife. Now Herodias laid snares 
 for him : and was desirous to 
 put him to death, and could 
 not. For Herod feared John, 
 knowing him to be a just and 
 holy man : and kept him, and 
 when he heard him, did man}'' 
 things : and he heard him will- 
 ingly. And when a convenient 
 day was come, Herod made a 
 supper for his birth-day, for 
 the princes, and tribunes, and 
 chief men of Galilee. And 
 when the daughter of the same 
 
 Herodias had come in, and had 
 danced, and pleased Herod, and 
 them that were at table with 
 him, the king said to the dam- 
 sel : Ask of me what thou wilt, 
 and I will give it thee. And 
 he swore to her : Whatsoever 
 thou shalt ask I will give thee, 
 though it he the half of my 
 kingdom. Who when she was 
 gone out, said to her mother. 
 What shall I ask? But she 
 said : The head of John the 
 Baptist. And when she was 
 come in immediately with haste 
 to the king, she asked, saying : 
 I will that forthwith thou give 
 me in a dish, the head of John 
 the Baptist. And the king 
 was struck sad. Yet because 
 of his oath, and because of them 
 that were with him at table, he 
 would not displease her : But 
 sending an executioner, he com- 
 manded that his head should 
 be brought in a dish. And he 
 beheaded him in the prison, and 
 brought his head in a dish : and 
 gave it to the damsel, and the 
 damsel gave it to her mother. 
 Which his disciples hearing 
 came, and took his body, and 
 laid it in a tomb. 
 
 48. Now the apostles com- 
 ing together unto Jesus, re- 
 lated to him all things that 
 they had done and taught. 
 And he said to them: Come 
 apart into a desert place, and 
 rest a little. For there were 
 many coming and going : and 
 they had not so mu<jh as time 
 to eat. And going up into a 
 ship, they went into a desert 
 place apart. 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST, 
 
 (John 6.) And a great mul- 
 titude followed him, because 
 they saw the miracles which he 
 did on them that were diseased. 
 Jesus therefore went up into a 
 mountain, and there he sat with 
 his disciples. Now the pasch, 
 the festival day of the Jews, 
 was near at hand. When Jesus 
 therefore had lifted up his eyes, 
 and seen, that a very great 
 multitude cometh to him, he 
 said to Philip : Whence shall 
 w^e buy bread, that these may 
 eat ? And this he said to try 
 him ; for he himself knew what 
 he would do. Philip answered 
 him : Two hundred penny- 
 worths of bread are not sutti- 
 cient for them, that every one 
 may take a little. One of his 
 disciples, Andrew, the brother 
 of Simon Peter, saith to him: 
 There is a boy here that hath 
 five barley loaves, and two 
 fishes ; but what are these 
 among so many ? Then Jesus 
 said : Make the men sit down. 
 Now there was much grass in 
 the place. The men therefore 
 sat down, in number about five 
 thousand. And Jesus took the 
 loaves: and when he had given 
 thanks, he distributed to them 
 that were sat down. In like 
 manner also of the fishes, as 
 much as they would. And 
 when they were filled, he said 
 to his disciples : Gather up the 
 fragments that remain, lest 
 they be lost. They gathered 
 up therefore, and filled twelve 
 baskets with the fragments of 
 the five barley loaves, which 
 remained over and above to 
 
 them that had eaten. Now 
 those men, when they had seen 
 what a miracle Jesus had done, 
 said : This is of a truth the 
 prophet, that is to come into 
 the world. Jesus therefore, 
 when he knew that they would 
 come to take him by force, and 
 make him king, fled again into 
 the mountain himself alone. 
 
 49. Now when evening was 
 come, his disciples went down 
 to the sea. And when they 
 had gone up into a ship, they 
 went over the sea to Caphar- 
 naum ; and it was now dark, 
 and Jesus was not come unto 
 them. And the sea arose, by 
 reason of a great wind that 
 blew. 
 
 (Mat. 14.) And having dis- 
 missed the multitude, Jesus 
 went into a mountain alone to 
 pray. And when it was even- 
 ing, he was there alone. But 
 the boat in the midst of the sea 
 was tossed with the waves : for 
 the wind was contrary. And 
 in the fourth watch of the night, 
 he came to them walking upon 
 the sea. And they seeing him 
 walking upon the sea, were 
 troubled, saying : It is an ap- 
 parition. And they cried out 
 for fear. And immediately 
 Jesus spoke to them, saying : 
 Be of good heart: it is I, fear 
 ye not. And Peter making an- 
 swer, said : Lord, if it be thou, 
 bid me come to thee upon the 
 waters. And he said: Come. 
 And Peter going down out of 
 the boat, walked upon the water 
 to come to Jesus. But seeing " 
 the wind strong, he was afraid: 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 45 
 
 and when he began to sink, he 
 cried out, sajing : Lord, save 
 me. And immediate!}^ Jesus 
 stretching forth his hand took 
 hold of him, and said to him : 
 O thou of little faith, why didst 
 thou doubt? And when they 
 were come up into the boat, the 
 wind ceased. And they that 
 were in the boat came and 
 adored him, saving : Indeed 
 thou art the son of God. 
 
 (John 6.) The next day, the 
 multitude that stood on the 
 other side of the sea, saw that 
 there was no other ship there 
 but one, and that Jesus had 
 not entered into the ship with 
 his disciples, but that his dis- 
 ciples were gone away alone. 
 But other ships came in from 
 Tiberias ; nigh unto the place 
 where they had eaten the bread, 
 the Lord giving thanks. When 
 therefore the multitude saw that 
 Jesus was not there, nor his dis- 
 ciples, they took shipping, and 
 came to Capharnaum, seeking 
 for Jesus. And when thej^ had 
 found him on the other side of 
 the sea, they said to him : Rab- 
 bi, when earnest thou hither? 
 Jesus answered them, and said : 
 Amen, amen, 1 say to you, you 
 seek me, not because you have 
 seen miracles, but because you 
 did eat of the loaves, and were 
 filled. 
 
 50. Labour not for the meat 
 which perisheth, but for that 
 which endureth unto life ever- 
 lasting, which the son of man 
 will give you. For him hath 
 God, the Father, sealed. They 
 said therefore unto him : What 
 
 shall we do, that we may work 
 the works of God ? Jesus an- 
 swered, and said to them : This 
 is the work of God, that you 
 believe in him whom he hath 
 sent. They said therefore to 
 him : W^hat sign therefore dost 
 thou shew, that we may see, 
 and may believe thee? What 
 dost thou work ? Our Fathers 
 did eat manna in the desert, as 
 it is written : He gave them 
 bread from heaven to eat. Then 
 Jesus said to them : Amen, 
 amen , I say to you ; Moses gave 
 you not bread from heaven, but 
 my Father giveth you the true 
 bread from heaven. For the 
 bread of God is that which 
 Cometh down from heaven, and 
 giveth life to the world. They 
 said therefore unto him : Lord, 
 give us alwa3's this bread. And 
 Jesus said to them : I am the 
 bread of life : he that cometh 
 to me shall not hunger: and he 
 that believeth in me shall never 
 thirst. But I said unto j^ou, 
 that you also have seen me, and 
 you believe not. All that the 
 Father giveth to me shall come 
 to me ; and him that cometh to 
 me, I will not cast out. Be- 
 cause I came down from heaven, 
 not to do my own will, but the 
 will of him that sent me. Now 
 this is the will of the Father 
 who sent me : that of all that 
 he hath given me, I should lose 
 nothing ; but should raise it up 
 again in the last day. And 
 this is the will of my Father 
 that sent me : that every one 
 who seeth the Son, and be- 
 lieveth in him, may have life 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 everlasting, and I will raise him 
 up in the last day. The Jews 
 therefore murmured at him, be- 
 cause he had said : I am the 
 living bread which came down 
 from heaven. And they said: 
 Is not this Jesus, the son of 
 Joseph , whose father and mother 
 we know ? How then saith he, 
 I came down from heaven ? 
 Jesus therefore answered, and 
 said to them : Murmur not 
 among yourselves. No man can 
 come to me, except the Father, 
 who hath sent me, draw him ; 
 and I will raise him up in the 
 last day. It is written in the 
 prophets : And they shall all he 
 taught of God, Every one that 
 hath heard of the Father, and 
 hath learned, cometh to me. 
 Not that any man hath seen 
 the Father; but he who is of 
 God, he hath seen the Father. 
 Amen, amen, I say unto you : 
 He that believeth in me, hath 
 everlasting life. 
 
 51. (A. D. 31.) I am the 
 bread of life. Your fathers did 
 eat manna in the desert, and 
 are dead. This is the bread 
 which cometh down from heav- 
 en ; that if any man eat of it, 
 he may not die. I am the liv- 
 ing bread which came down 
 fiom heaven. If any man eat 
 of this bread, he shall live for 
 ever ; and the bread that I will 
 give, is my flesh, for the life of 
 the world. The Jews therefore 
 strove among themselves, say- 
 ing : How can this man give us 
 his flesh to eat? Then Jesus 
 said to them : Amen, amen, I 
 say unto you : Except you eat 
 
 the flesh of the son of man, and 
 drink his blood, you shall not 
 have life in 3^ou. He that eat- 
 eth my flesh, and drinketii my 
 blood, hath everlasting life: and 
 I will raise him up in the last 
 day. For my flesh is meat in- 
 deed : and my blood is drink 
 indeed. He that eateth my 
 flesh, and drinketh my blood, 
 abideth in me, and I in him. 
 As the living Father hath sent 
 me, and I live by the Father ; 
 so he that eateth me, the same 
 also shall live by me. This is 
 the bread that came down from 
 heaven. Not as your fathers 
 did eat manna, and are dead. 
 He that eateth this bread, shall 
 live for ever. These things he 
 said, teaching in the synagogue, 
 in Capharnaum. Many there- 
 fore of his disciples, hearing it, 
 said: This saying is hard, and 
 who can hear it? But Jesus, 
 knowing in himself, that his 
 disciples murmured at this, said 
 to them : Doth this scandalize 
 you ? If then 3^ou > shall see 
 the son of man ascend up where 
 he was before ? It is the spirit 
 that quickeneth : the flesh profit- 
 eth nothing. The words that I 
 have spoken to you, are spirit 
 and life. But there are some 
 of you that believe not. For 
 Jesus knew from the beginnings 
 who they were that did not be- 
 lieve, and who he was, that 
 would betray him. And he 
 said : Therefore did I say to 
 3 ou, that no man can come to 
 me, unless it be given him by 
 my Father. After this many 
 of his disciples went back ; and 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 47 
 
 walked no more with bim. 
 Then Jesus said to the twelve : 
 Will you also go away ? And 
 Simon Peter answered him : 
 Lord, to whom shall we go? 
 thou hast the words of eternal 
 life. And we have believed and 
 have known, that thou art the 
 
 Christ, the Son of God. Jesus 
 answered them : Have not I 
 chosen 3^ou twelve ; and one of 
 you is a devil ? Now he meant 
 Judas Iscariot, the son of Si- 
 mon : for this same was about 
 to betray him, whereas he was 
 one of the twelve. 
 
 CHAPTER Y. 
 
 SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS. 
 
 1. (John 7. A. D. 32.) After 
 these things Jesus walked in 
 Galilee ; for he would not walk 
 in Judea, because the Jews 
 sought to kill him. 
 
 (Mark 6.) And when they 
 had passed over, they came into 
 the land of Genezareth, and set 
 to the shore. And when they 
 were gone out of the ship, im- 
 mediately they knew him : And 
 running through that whole 
 country, they began to carry 
 about in beds those that were 
 sick, where they heard he was. 
 And whithersoever he entered, 
 into towns or into villages or 
 cities, they laid the sick in the 
 streets, and besought him that 
 they might touch but the hem 
 of his garment : and as many as 
 touched him were made whole. 
 
 2. (Mark. 7.) Now there 
 assembled together unto him 
 the Pharisees and some of the 
 scribes, coming from Jerusa- 
 lem. And when they had seen 
 some of his disciples eat bread 
 
 with common, that is, with un- 
 washed hands, the}" found fault. 
 For the Pharisees, and all the 
 Jews eat not without often 
 washing their hands, holding 
 the tradition of the ancients : 
 And when they come from the 
 market, unless they be washed, 
 they eat not : and many other 
 things there are that have been 
 delivered to them to observe, 
 the washings of cups and of 
 pots, and of brazen vessels, and 
 of beds. And the Pharisees 
 and scribes asked him : Y^hy 
 do not th}^ disciples walk ac- 
 cording to the tradition of the 
 ancients, but they eat bread 
 with common hands? But he 
 j answering, said to them : Well 
 did Isaias prophesy of you 
 hypocrites, as it is written : 
 This people honouretk me with 
 their lips, but their heart is far 
 from me. And in vain do they 
 ivorship vie, teaching doctrines 
 and precepts of men. For leav- 
 ing the commandment of God, 
 
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 LIFE OF CUEIST. 
 
 you hold the tradition of men, 
 the washings of pots and of 
 cups : and many otlier things 
 you do like to these. And he 
 said to tbem : Well do you 
 make void the commandment 
 of God, that you may keep your 
 own tradition. For Moses said : 
 Honour thy father and thy 
 mother; and He that shall curse 
 father or mother^ dying let him 
 die. But you say : If a man 
 shall say to his father or mother, 
 Corban (which is a gift,) what- 
 soever is from me, shall profit 
 thee. And farther you suffer 
 him not to do anything for his 
 father or mother, making void 
 the word of God by your own 
 tradition, which you have given 
 forth. And many other such 
 like things you do. 
 
 3. Now calling again the 
 multitude unto him, he said to 
 thera : Hear ye me all and 
 understand. There is nothing 
 from without a man that enter- 
 ing into him, can defile him. 
 But the things which come 
 from a man, those are they that 
 defile a man. If any man have 
 ears to hear, let him hear. And 
 when he was come into the 
 house from the multitude, his 
 disciples asked him the para- 
 ble. And he saith to them : 
 So are you also without knowl- 
 edge? understand you not that 
 every thing from without, enter- 
 ing into a man cannot defile 
 him : Because it entereth not 
 into his heart, but goeth into 
 the belly, and goeth out into 
 the privy, purging all meats? 
 But he said that the things 
 
 which come out from a man, 
 they defile a man. For from 
 within out of the heart of men 
 proceed evil thoughts, adul- 
 teries, fornications, murders, 
 Thefts, covetousness, wicked- 
 ness, deceit, lasciviousness, an 
 evil eye, blasphemy, pride, fool- 
 ishness. All these evil things 
 come from within, and defile a 
 man. 
 
 4. Now rising from thence 
 he went into the coasts of Tyre 
 and Sidon : and entering into a 
 house, he would that no man 
 should know it, and he could 
 not be hid. For a woman as 
 soon as she heard of him, whose 
 daughter had an unclean spirit, 
 came in and fell down at his 
 feet. For the woman was a 
 Gentile, a Syrophenician born. 
 And she besought him that he 
 would cast forth the devil out 
 of her daughter. Who said to 
 her : Suflfer first the children to 
 be filled : for it is not good to 
 take the bread of the children, 
 and cast it to the dogs. But 
 she answered and said to him : 
 Yea, Lord ; for the whelps also 
 eat under the table of the 
 crumbs of the children. And 
 he said to her : For this saying 
 go thy way, the devil is gone 
 out of thy daughter. And 
 when she was come into her 
 house, she found the girl lying 
 upon the bed, and that the 
 devil was gone out. 
 
 5. (A. D. 32.) But again 
 going out of the coasts of Tyre, 
 he came by Sidon to the sea of 
 Galilee, through the midst of the 
 coasts of Decapolis. And they 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 49 
 
 bring to him one deaf and dumb ; 
 and they besought him that he 
 would lay his hand upon him. 
 And taking him from the multi- 
 tude apart, he put his fingers into 
 his ears, and spitting, he touched 
 his tongue: And looking up 
 to heaven, he groaned, and said 
 to him: Ephpheta, which is. 
 Be thou opened. And imme- 
 diately his ears were opened 
 and the string of his tongue 
 was loosed, and he spoke right. 
 And he charged them that they 
 should tell no man. But the 
 more he charged them, so much 
 the more a great deal did they 
 publish it. And so much the 
 more did they wonder, say- 
 ing : He hath done all things 
 well; he hath made both the 
 deaf to hear, and the dumb to 
 speak. 
 
 6. (Mat. 15.) Now when 
 Jesus had passed away from 
 thence, he came nigh the sea 
 of Galilee. And going up into 
 a mountain, he sat there. And 
 there came to him great multi- 
 tudes, having with them the 
 dumb, the blind, the lame, the 
 maimed, and many others: and 
 they cast them down at his 
 feet, and he healed them : So 
 that the multitudes marvelled 
 seeing the dumb speak, the 
 lame walk, the blind see : and 
 tbey glorified the God of Israel. 
 And Jesus called together his 
 disciples, and said : I have com- 
 passion on the multitudes, be- 
 cause they continue with me 
 now three days, and have not 
 what to eat, and I will not send 
 them away fasting, lest they 
 
 faint in the way. And the dis- 
 ciples say unto him : Whence 
 then should we have so many 
 loaves in the desert, as to fill so 
 great a multitude? And Jesus 
 said to them : how many loaves 
 have you? But they said: 
 Seven, and a few little fishes. 
 And he commanded the multi- 
 tude to sit down upon the 
 ground. And taking the seven 
 loaves and the fishes, and giv- 
 ing thanks, he brake, and gave 
 to his disciples, and the dis- 
 ciples gave to the people. And 
 the}'' did all eat, and had their 
 fill. And they took up seven 
 baskets full, of what remained 
 of the fragments. And they 
 that did eat, were four thou- 
 sand men, beside children and 
 women. And having dismissed 
 the multitude, he went up into 
 a boat, and came into the coasts 
 of Magedan. 
 
 7. (Mat. 16.) Now there 
 came to him the Pharisees and 
 Sadducees tempting : and they 
 asked him to shew them a sign 
 from heaven. But he answered 
 and said to them : When it is 
 evening, j^ou say. It will be fair 
 weather, for the sky is red. 
 And in the morning : To-day 
 there will he a storm, for the 
 sky is red and lowering. You 
 know then how to discern the 
 face of the sky : and can you 
 not know the signs of the 
 times ? A wicked and adulter- 
 ous generation seeketh after a 
 sign : and a sign shall not be 
 given it, but the sign of Jonas 
 the prophet. And leaving them, 
 he went up again into the ship, 
 
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 and passed to the other side of 
 the water. 
 
 8. Now when his disciples 
 were come over the water, they 
 had forg^otten to take bread. 
 Who said to them : Take heed 
 and beware of the leaven of the 
 Pharisees and Sadducees. But 
 they thought within themselves, 
 saj^ing : Because we have taken 
 no bread. And Jesus knowing 
 it, said : Why do you think 
 within yourselves, ye of little 
 faith, for that you have no 
 bread ? Do you not yet under- 
 stand, neither do you remem- 
 ber the five loaves among five 
 thousand men, and how many 
 baskets you took up ? Nor the 
 seven loaves among four thou- 
 sand men, and how many bask- 
 ets you took up ? Why do you 
 not understand that it was not 
 concerning bread I said to you : 
 Beware of the leaven of the 
 Pharisees and Sadducees ? Then 
 they understood that he said 
 not that they should beware of 
 the leaven of bread, but of the 
 doctrine of the Pharisees and 
 Sadducees. 
 
 9. (Mark 8.) Now they 
 came to Bethsaida; and they 
 bring to him a blind man, and 
 they besought him that he 
 would touch him. And taking 
 the blind man by the hand, he 
 led him out of the town ; and 
 spitting upon his eyes, laying 
 his hands on him, he asked him 
 if he saw any thing. And look- 
 ing up, he said : 1 see men as 
 it were trees, walking. After 
 that again he laid his hands 
 upon his eyes, and he began to 
 
 see, and was restored, so that 
 he saw all things clearly. And 
 he sent him into his house, say- 
 ing : Go into thy house, and if 
 thou enter into the town, tell 
 nobody. 
 
 10. (Mat. 16. A. D. 32.) Now 
 Jesus came into the quarters 
 of Cesarea Philippi: and he 
 asked his disciples, sa3ing : 
 Whom do men say tbat the son 
 of man is? But they said : 
 Some John the Baptist, and 
 other some Elias, and others 
 Jeremias,or one of the prophets. 
 Jesus saith to them: But whom 
 do 3^ou say that I am ? Simon 
 Peter answered and said : Thou 
 art Christ, the Son of the living 
 God. And Jesus answering, 
 said to him : Blessed art thou, 
 Simon Bar-Jona : because flesh 
 and blood hath not revealed it 
 to thee, but my father who is 
 in heaven. And I say to thee: 
 That thou art Peter; and upon 
 this rock 1 will build my church, 
 and the gates of hell shall not 
 prevail against it. And I will 
 give to thee the keys of the 
 kingdom of heaven. And what- 
 soever thou shalt bind upon 
 earth, it shall be bound also in 
 heaven : and whatsoever thou 
 shalt loose on earth, it shall be 
 loosed also in heaven. Then 
 he commanded his disciples, 
 that they should tell no one 
 that he was Jesus the Christ. 
 
 11. From that time Jesus 
 began to shew to his disciples, 
 that he must go to Jerusalem, 
 and suffer many things from 
 the ancients and scribes and 
 chief-priests, and be put to 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST, 
 
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 death, and the third day rise 
 again. And Peter taking him, 
 began to rebuke him, saying: 
 Lord, be it far from thee, this 
 shall not be unto thee. Who 
 turning said to Peter: Go be- 
 hind me, satan, thou art a scan- 
 dal unto me : because thou 
 savourest not the things that 
 are of God, but the things that 
 are of men. Then Jesus said 
 to his disciples : If any man 
 will come after me, let him 
 deny himself, and take up his 
 cross, and follow me. For he 
 that will save his life, shall lose 
 it: and he that shall lose his 
 life for my sake, shall find it. 
 For what doth it profit a man, 
 if he gain the whole world, 
 and suffer the loss of his own 
 soul? Or what exchange shall 
 a man give for his soul? For 
 the son of man shall come in 
 the glory of his Father with his 
 Angels : and then will he ren- 
 der to every man according to 
 his works. Amen I say to you, 
 there are some of them that 
 stand here, that shall not taste 
 death, till they see the son of 
 man coming in his kingdom. 
 
 12. (Mat. 17.) Now after 
 six da^^s Jesus taketh unto him 
 Peter and James, and John his 
 brother, and bringeth them up 
 into a high mountain apart : 
 And he was transfigured before 
 them. And his face did shine 
 as the sun : and his garments 
 became white as snow. And 
 behold there appeared to them 
 Moses and EUas talking with 
 him. And Peter answering, 
 said to Jesus : Lord, it is good 
 
 j for us to be here: if thou wilt, 
 let us make here three taber- 
 nacles, one for thee, and one for 
 Moses, and one for Elias. And 
 as he was yet speaking, behold 
 a bright cloud overshaded them. 
 And lo a voice out of the cloud, 
 saying : This is my beloved Son, 
 in whom I am well pleased : 
 hear ye him. And the disciples 
 hearing, fell upon their face, 
 and were very much afraid. 
 And Jesus came and touched 
 them : and said to them. Arise, 
 and fear not. And they lifting 
 up their eyes saw no one but 
 only Jesus. And as they came 
 down from the mountain, Jesus 
 charged them, saying : Tell the 
 vision to no man, till the son 
 of man be risen from the dead. 
 And his disciples asked him, 
 saying : Why then do the 
 Scribes say that Elias must 
 come first? But he answering 
 said to them : Elias indeed shall 
 come, and restore all things. 
 But I say to you, that Elias is 
 already come, and they knew 
 him not, but have done unto 
 him whatsoever they had a 
 mind. So also the Son of man 
 shall suffer from them. Then 
 the disciples understood, that 
 he had spoken to them of John 
 the Baptist. 
 
 13. (Luke 9. Mat. 17.) Now 
 it came to pass the day follow- 
 ing when they came down from 
 the mountain, coming to his 
 disciples, he saw a great multi- 
 tude about them, and the 
 scribes disputing with them. 
 And presently all the people 
 seeing Jesus, were astonished 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 and struck with fear ; and run- 
 ning to him, they saluted him. 
 And he asked them : What do 
 you question about among you ? 
 And one of the multitude, an- 
 swering, said : Master, I have 
 brought my son to thee, having 
 a dumb spirit, Who, whereso- 
 ever he taketh him, dasheth 
 him, and he foameth, and gnash- 
 eth with the teeth, aud pineth 
 away ; and I spoke to thy dis- 
 ciples to cast him out, and they 
 could not. Who answering 
 them, said : O incredulous 
 generation, how long shall I be 
 with you ? how long shall I 
 suffer you ? bring him unto me. 
 And they brought him. And 
 when he had seen him, imme- 
 diately the spirit troubled him ; 
 and being thrown down upon 
 the ground, he rolled about 
 foaming. And he asked his 
 father : How long time is it 
 since this hath happened unto 
 him ? But he said : From his 
 infanc}^ : And often times hath 
 he cast him into the fire and 
 into waters to destroy him. 
 But if thou canst do any thing, 
 help us, having compassion on 
 us. And Jesus saith to him : 
 If thou canst believe, all things 
 are possible to him that believ- 
 eth. And immediately the 
 father of the boy crying out, 
 with tears said : I do believe, 
 Lord : help my unbelief. And 
 when Jesus saw the multitude 
 running together, he threatened 
 the unclean spirit, saying to 
 him : Deaf and dumb spirit, I 
 command thee, go out of him ; 
 and enter not any more into 
 
 him. And crying out, and 
 greatly tearing him, he went 
 out of him, and he became as 
 dead, so that many said : He 
 is dead. But Jesus taking him 
 b}^ the hand, lifted him up ; and 
 he arose. And when he was 
 come into the house, his disci- 
 ples secretly asked him : Why 
 could not we cast him out? 
 And he said to them : This 
 kind can go out hy nothing, 
 but by prayer and fasting. 
 
 14. Now departing from 
 thence, they passed through 
 Galilee, and he would not that 
 any man should know it. And 
 he taught his disciples, and said 
 to them : The son of man shall 
 be betraj^ed into the hands of 
 men, and they shall kill him; 
 and after that he is killed, he 
 shall rise again the third day. 
 But they understood not the 
 word, and they were afraid to 
 ask him. 
 
 15. Now when they were 
 come to Capharnaum, they that 
 received the didrachmas, came 
 to Peter and said to him : 
 Doth not your master pay the 
 didrachmas? He said: yes. 
 And when he was come into 
 the house, Jesus prevented 
 him, saying: What is thy 
 opinion, Simon ? The kings of 
 the earth, of whom do they re- 
 ceive tribute or custom ? of 
 their own children, or of stran- 
 gers ? And he said : Of stran- 
 gers. Jesus said to him : 
 Then the children are free. 
 But that we ma}^ not scandal- 
 ize them, go to the sea, and 
 cast in a hook : and that fisli 
 
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 53 
 
 which shall first come up, take : 
 and when thou hast opened its 
 mouth, thou shalt find a stater: 
 take that, and give it to them 
 for me and thee. 
 
 16. (Mark 9.) Now they 
 came to Capharnaura. And 
 when they were in the house, 
 he asked them : What did you 
 treat of in the way ? But they 
 held their pqace, for in the way 
 they had disputed among them- 
 selves, which of them should 
 be tlie greatest. And sitting 
 down, he called the twelve, and 
 saith to them : If any man de- 
 sire to be first, he shall be the 
 last of all, and the minister of 
 all. And taking a child, he 
 set him in the midst of them. 
 Whom when he had embraced, 
 he saith to them : Whosoever 
 shall receive one such child as 
 this in my name, receiveth me. 
 And whosoever shall receive 
 me, receiveth not me, but him 
 that sent me. 
 
 n. John answered him, 
 saying: Master, we saw one 
 casting out devils in thy name, 
 who followeth not us, and we 
 forbade him. But Jesus said : 
 Do not forbid him. For there 
 is no man that doth a miracle 
 in my name, and can soon 
 speak ill of me. For he that 
 is not against you, is for you. 
 
 18. For whosoever shall give 
 you to drink a cup of water in 
 my name, because you belong 
 to Christ: Amen I say to you, 
 be shall not lose his reward. 
 
 19. And whosoever shall 
 scandalize one of these little 
 ones that believe in me ; it were 
 
 better for him that a millstone 
 were hanged about his neck, 
 and he were cast into the sea. 
 And if thy hand scandalize 
 thee, cut it off: it is better for 
 thee to enter into life, maimed, 
 than having two hands to go 
 into hell, into unquenchable 
 fire : Where their worm dieth 
 not, and the fire is not extin- 
 guished. And if thy foot scan- 
 dalize thee, cut it off. It is 
 better for thee to enter lame in- 
 to life everlasting, than having 
 two feet, to be cast into the hell 
 of unquenchable fire: Where 
 their worm dieth not, and the 
 fire is not extinguished. And 
 if thy eye scandalize thee, 
 pluck it out. It is better for 
 thee with one eye to enter into 
 the kingdom of God, than hav- 
 ing two eyes to be cast into the 
 hell of fire : Where their worm 
 dieth not, and the fire is not 
 extinguished. For every one 
 shall be salted with fire: and 
 every victim shall be salted 
 with salt. Salt is good. But 
 if the salt become unsavoury ; 
 wherewith will you season it ? 
 Have salt in you, and have 
 peace among you. 
 
 20. (John 7. A. D. 32.) 
 Now the Jews' feast of taberna- 
 cles was at hand. And his breth- 
 ren said to him: Pass from 
 hence, and gointo Judea; that 
 thy disciples also may see thy 
 works which thou dost. For 
 there is no man that doth any 
 thing in secret, and he himself 
 seeketh to be known openly. 
 If thou do these things, mani- 
 fest thyself to the world. For 
 
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 neither did his brethren believe 
 in him. Then Jesus said to 
 them: My time is not ^^et 
 come; but your time is always 
 ready. The world cannot hate 
 you ; but me it hateth : because 
 I give testimony of it, that the 
 
 works thereof are evil. Go 
 you up to this festival day, 
 but I go not up to this festival 
 day: because my time is not 
 accomplished. When he had 
 said these things, he himself 
 staid in Galilee. 
 
 CHAPTER YI. 
 
 BEHOLD WE GO UP TO JERUSALEM. 
 
 1. (Luke 9.) And it came 
 to pass, when the days of his 
 assumption were accomplish- 
 ing, that he steadfastly set his 
 face to go to Jerusalem. And he 
 sent messengers before his face ; 
 and going, they entered into a 
 city of the Samaritans, to pre- 
 pare for him. And they re- 
 ceived him not, because his face 
 w^as of one going to Jerusalem. 
 And when his disciples James 
 and John had seen this, the}' 
 said: Lord, wilt thou that we 
 command fire to come down 
 from heaven, and consume 
 them? And turning, he re- 
 buked them, saying : You 
 know not of what spirit 3'ou 
 are. The son of man came not 
 to destroy souls, but to save. 
 And they went into another 
 town. 
 
 2. Now it came to pass, as 
 they walked in the way, that a 
 certain man said to him : I 
 will follow thee whithersoever 
 thou goest. Jesus said to hin^ : 
 the foxes have holes, ap^J the 
 
 birds of the air nests ; but the 
 son of man hath not where to 
 lay his head. 
 
 3. (A. D. 32.) But he said 
 to another : Follow me. And 
 he said : Lord, suffer me first 
 to go, and to hwvy my father. 
 And Jesus said to him : Let 
 the dead bury their dead : but 
 go thou, and preach the king- 
 dom of God. 
 
 4. And another said : I 
 will follow thee. Lord ; but let 
 me first take my leave of them 
 that are at my house. Jesus 
 said to him : No man putting 
 his hand to the plough, and 
 looking back, is fit for the king- 
 dom of God. 
 
 5. (Luke 10.) Now after 
 these things the Lord appoint- 
 ed also other seventy-two: and 
 he sent them two and two be- 
 fore his face into every city 
 and place whither he himself 
 was to come. And he said to 
 them: The harvest indeed is 
 great, but the labourers are 
 few. Pray ye therefore the 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 55 
 
 Lord of the harvest, that he 
 send labourers into his harvest. 
 Go : Behokl I send you as 
 lambs among wolves. Carry 
 neither purse, nor scrip, nor 
 shoes; and salute no man by 
 the wa3^ Into whatsoever 
 house you enter, first say : 
 Peace be to this house. And 
 if the son of peace be there, 
 your peace shall rest upon him ; 
 but if not, it shall return to 
 you. And in the same house, 
 remain, eating and drinking 
 such things as they have : for 
 the labourer is worthy of his 
 hire. Remove not from house 
 to house. And into what city 
 soever you enter, and they re- 
 ceive you, eat such things as 
 are set before you. And heal 
 the sick that are therein, and 
 say to them : The kingdom of 
 God is come nigh unto 3^ou. 
 But into whatsoever city you 
 enter, and they receive 3^ou not, 
 going forth into the streets 
 thereof, say : Even the very 
 xlust of your city that cleaveth 
 to us, we wipe off against you. 
 Yet know this, that the king- 
 dom of God is at hand. I say 
 to you, it shall be more tolera- 
 ble at that day for Sodom, than 
 for that cit3% Wo to thee, 
 Corozam, wo to thee, Bethsaida. 
 For if in Tyre and Sidon had 
 been wrought the mighty works 
 that have been wrought in 3'ou, 
 they would have done penance 
 long ago, sitting in sackcloth 
 and ashes. But it shall be more 
 tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at 
 the judgment, than for 3'ou. 
 And thou, Capharnaum, which 
 
 art exalted unto heaven, thou 
 shalt be thrust down to hell. 
 He that heareth you, heareth 
 me ; and he that despiseth you, 
 despiseth me; and he that de- 
 spiseth me, despiseth him that 
 sent me. 
 
 6. (Mat. 11.) At that time 
 Jesus answered and said : I 
 confess to thee, Father, Lord 
 of heaven and earth, because 
 thou hast hid these things from 
 the wise and prudent, and hast 
 revealed them to little ones. 
 Yea, Father; for so hath it 
 seemed good in thy sight. All 
 things are delivered to me by 
 my Father.' And no one know- 
 eth the Son, but the Father: 
 neither doth any one know the 
 Father, but the Son, and he to 
 whom it shall please the Son to 
 reveal him. Come to me, all 
 j'ou that labour, and are bur- 
 dened, and I will refresh 3'ou. 
 Take up my yoke upon you, 
 and learn of me, because I am 
 meek, and humble of heart: 
 and you shall find rest to your 
 souls. For my j^oke is sweet 
 and vny burden light. 
 
 7. (Luke 10.) And behold 
 a certain lawj'er stood up 
 tempting him, and saying, 
 Master, what must I do to 
 possess eternal life ? But he 
 said to him : What is written 
 in the law ? how readest thou ? 
 He answering, said: Thou 
 shall love the Lord thy God 
 with thy whole hearty and icith 
 thy whole soul^ and with all thy 
 strength, and with all thy mind : 
 and thy neighbour as thyself. 
 And he said to him : Thou 
 
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 hast answered right : this do, 
 and thou shalt live. But he 
 willing to justify himself, said 
 to Jesus : And who is my 
 neighbour? And Jesus an- 
 swering, said : A certain man 
 went down from Jerusalem to 
 Jericho, and fell among robbers, 
 who also stripped him, and hav- 
 ing wounded him went away 
 leaving him half dead. And 
 it chanced, that a certain priest 
 went down the same way : and 
 seeing him passed by. In like 
 manner also a Levite, when he 
 was near the place and saw 
 him, passed by. But a certain 
 Samaritan being on his journey, 
 came near him ; and seeing 
 him, was moved with compas- 
 sion. And going up to him, 
 bound up his wounds, pouring 
 in oil and wine : and setting 
 him upon his own beast, 
 brought him to an inn, and 
 took care of him. And the 
 next day he took out two 
 pence, and gave to the host, 
 and said: Take care of him; 
 and whatsoever thou shalt 
 spend over and above, I, at m}^ 
 return, will repay thee. Which 
 of these three, in thy opinion, 
 was neighbour to him that fell 
 among the robbers? But he 
 said : He that shewed mercy 
 to him. And Jesus said to 
 him : Go, and do thou in like 
 manner. 
 
 8. Now it came to pass as 
 they went, that he entered into 
 a certain town : and a certain 
 woman named Martha, received 
 him into her house. And she 
 had a sister called Mary, who 
 
 sitting also at the Lord's feet, 
 heard his word. But Martha 
 was busy about much serving. 
 Who stood and said : Lord, 
 hast thou no care that my sis- 
 ter hath left me alone to serve ? 
 speak to her therefore, that she 
 help me. And the Lord an- 
 swering, said to her : Martha, 
 Martha, thou art careful, and 
 art troubled about many things. 
 But one thing is necessary. 
 Mary has chosen the best part, 
 which shall not be taken away 
 from her. 
 
 9. (John 7.) The Jews 
 therefore sought him on the 
 festival day, and said : Where 
 is he ? And there was much 
 murmuring among the multi- 
 tude concerning him. For 
 some said : He is a good man. 
 And others said: No, but he 
 seduceth the people. Yet no 
 man spoke openly of him, for 
 fear of the Jews. 
 
 10. Now about the midst 
 of the feast, Jesus went up in- 
 to the temple, and taught. 
 And the Jews wondered, say- 
 ing : How doth this man know 
 letters, having never learned ? 
 Jesus answered them, and said: 
 My doctrine is not mine, but 
 his that sent me. If any man 
 will do the will of him ; he shall 
 know of the doctrine, whether 
 it be of God, or whether I speak 
 of myself. He that speaketh 
 of himself, seeketh his own 
 glory : but he that seeketh the 
 glory of him that sent him, he 
 is true, and there is no injustice 
 in him. Did not Moses give 
 you the law, and yet none of 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 you keepeth the law. Why 
 seek you to kill me ? The mul- 
 titude answered, and said : 
 Thou hast a devil; who seek- 
 eth to kill thee ? Jesus an- 
 swered, and said to them : One 
 work I have done ; and you all 
 wonder : Therefore, Moses gave 
 you circumcision, (not because 
 it is of Moses, but of the 
 fathers ;) and on the sabbath 
 day you circumcise a man. If 
 a man receive circumcision on 
 the sabbath day, that the law 
 of Moses may not be broken ; 
 are you angry at me because I 
 have healed the whole man on 
 the sabbath day ? Judge not 
 according to the appearance, 
 but judge just judgment. Some 
 therefore of Jerusalem said : 
 Is not this he whom they seek 
 to kill ? And behold, he speak- 
 eth openly, and they say noth- 
 ing to him. Have the rulers 
 known for a truth, that this is 
 the Christ? But we know 
 this man, whence he is: but 
 when the Christ comet h, no 
 man knoweth whence he is. 
 Jesus therefore cried out in the 
 temple, teaching, and saying : 
 You both know me, and you 
 know whence I am : and I am 
 not come of myself; but he 
 that sent me, is true, whom 
 you know not. I know him, 
 because I am from him, and he 
 hath sent me. They sought 
 therefore to apprehend him : 
 and no man laid hands on him, 
 because his hour was not yet 
 come. But of the people many 
 believed in him, and said: 
 When the Christ cometh, shall 
 
 he do more miracles, than these 
 which this man doth ? The 
 Pharisees heard the people 
 murmuring these things con- 
 cerning him : and the rulers 
 and Pharisees sent ministers 
 to apprehend him. Jesus there- 
 fore said to them : Yet a little 
 while I am with 3'ou : and then 
 I go to him that sent me. You 
 shall seek me, and shall not 
 find me: and where I am, 
 t hither you cannot come. The 
 Jews therefore said among 
 themselves: Whither will he 
 go, that we shall not find him ? 
 will he go unto the dispersed 
 among the gentiles, and teach 
 the gentiles? What is this 
 saving that he hath said : You 
 shall seek me, and shall not 
 find me ; and where I am, you 
 cannot come ? 
 
 11. And on the last, and 
 great day of the festivity, 
 Jesus stood and cried, saying : 
 If any man thirst, let him come 
 to me, and drink. He that be- 
 lieveth in me, as the scripture 
 saith, Out of his belly shall flow 
 rivers of living water. Now 
 this he said of the spirit which 
 they should receive, who be- 
 lieved in him : for as yet the 
 spirit was not given, because 
 Jesus was not yet glorified. 
 
 12. Of that multitude 
 therefore, when they had heard 
 these words of his, some said : 
 This is the prophet indeed. 
 Others said: this is the Christ. 
 But some said: Doth the 
 Christ come out of Galilee? 
 Doth not the scripture say : 
 That Christ cometh of the seed 
 
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 of David, and from Bethlehem 
 the town where David was? 
 So there arose a dissension 
 among the people because of 
 him. And some of them would 
 have apprehended him : but no 
 man laid hands upon him. The 
 ministers therefore came to the 
 chief priests and the Pharisees. 
 And they said to them : Why 
 have you not brought him ? 
 The ministers answered : Never 
 did man speak like this man. 
 The Pharisees therefore an- 
 swered them : Are you also 
 seduced ? Hath any one of the 
 rulers believed in him, or of the 
 Pharisees. But this multitude, 
 that knoweth not the law, are 
 accursed. Nicodemus said to 
 them, (he that came to him by 
 night, who was one of them :) 
 Doth our law judge any man, 
 unless it first hear him, and 
 know what he doth ? They 
 answered, and said to him : 
 Art thou also a Galilean ? 
 Searcli the scriptures, and see, 
 that out of Galilee a prophet 
 riseth not. And every man 
 returned to liis own house. 
 
 13. (A. D. 32. John 8.) 
 Now Jesus went unto mount Oli- 
 vet. And early in the morning 
 he came again into the temple, 
 and all the people came to him, 
 and sitting down he taught 
 them. And the scribes and 
 Pharisees bring unto him a 
 woman taken in adultery : and 
 they set her in the midst, and 
 said to him : Master, this 
 woman was even now taken in 
 adultery. Now Moses in the 
 law commanded us to stone 
 
 such a one. But what sayest 
 thou ? And this they said 
 tempting him, that they might 
 accuse. But Jesus bowing him- 
 self down, wrote with his fin- 
 ger on the ground. When 
 therefore they continued asking 
 him, he lifted up hi^iself, and 
 said to them : He that is with- 
 out sin among you, let him first 
 cast a stone at her. And asfain 
 stooping down, he wrote on 
 the ground. But they hearing 
 this^ went out one by one, be- 
 ginning at the eldest. And 
 Jesus alone remained, and the 
 woman standing in the midst. 
 Then Jesus lifting up himself, 
 said to her: Woman, where 
 are they that accused thee? 
 Hath no man condemned thee? 
 Who said: No man. Lord. 
 And Jesus said : Neither will 
 I condemn thee. Go, and now 
 sin no more. 
 
 14. Again therefore, Jesus 
 spoke to them, saying : I am 
 the light of the world: He 
 that followeth me, walketh not 
 in darkness, but shall have the 
 lio^ht of life. The Pharisees 
 therefore said to him: Thou 
 givest testimony of th3'self: 
 thy testimony is not true. 
 Jesus answered, and said to 
 them : Although I give testi- 
 mony of myself, my testimony 
 is true : for I know whence I 
 came, and whither I go : but 
 you know not whence I come, 
 or whither I go. You judge 
 according to the flesh : I judge 
 not any man. And if I do 
 judge, my judgment is true: 
 because I am not alone, but I 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
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 and the Father that sent me. 
 And in your law it is written, 
 that the testimony of two men 
 is true. I am one that give 
 testimony of myself: and the 
 Father that sent me giveth tes- 
 timony of me. They said 
 therefore to him : Where is 
 thy Father ? Jesus answered ; 
 Neither me do you know, nor 
 my Father : if you did know 
 me, perhaps you would know 
 my Father also. These words 
 Jesus spoke in the treasury, 
 teaching in the temple : and no 
 man laid hands on him, because 
 his hour was not 3- et come. 
 
 15. Again therefore Jesus 
 said to them : I go, and you 
 shall seek me, and you shall 
 die in your sin. Whither I go, 
 you cannot come. The Jews 
 therefore said : Will he kill 
 himself, because he said : 
 Whither I go, you cannot 
 come ? And he said to them : 
 You are from beneath, I am 
 from above. You are of this 
 world, I am not of this worhl. 
 Therefore I said to you, that 
 you shall die in your sins. For 
 if you believe not that I am he, 
 you shall die in your sin. They 
 said therefore to him : Who 
 art thou ? Jesus said to them : 
 The beginning, who also speak 
 unto you. Many things I have 
 to speak, and to judge of you. 
 But he that sent me, is true : 
 and the things I have heard of 
 him, these same I speak in the 
 world. And they understood 
 not, that he called God his 
 Father. 
 
 16. Jesus therefore said to 
 
 them : When 3T)U shall have 
 lifted up the son of man, then 
 shall you know, that I am he, 
 and that I do nothing of my- 
 self, but as the Father hath 
 taught me, these things I speak : 
 And he that sent me, is with 
 me, and he hath not left me 
 alone : for I do always the 
 things that please him. When 
 he spoke these things, many 
 believed in him. 
 
 n. Then Jesus said to those 
 Jews, who believed him : If 
 you continue in my word, 3^ou 
 shall be my disciples indeed. 
 And you shall know the truth, 
 and the truth shall make you 
 free. They answered him ; 
 We are the seed of Abraham, 
 and we have never been slaves 
 to any man : how sayest thou : 
 you shall be free? Jesus an- 
 swered them : Amen, amen, I 
 say unto 3'ou : that whosoever 
 committeth sin, is the servant 
 of sin. Now the servant abid- 
 eth not in the house for ever ; 
 but the son abideth for ever. 
 If therefore the son shall make 
 3^ou free, you shall be free in- 
 deed. I know that 3^ou are the 
 children of Abraham : but you 
 seek to kill me, because my 
 word hath no place in you. I 
 speak that which I have seen 
 with my Father: and you do 
 the things that 3'ou have seen 
 with your father. They an- 
 swered, and said to him : Abra- 
 ham is our father. Jesus saith 
 to them ! If you be the chil- 
 dren of Abraham, do the works 
 of Abraham. But now you 
 seek to kill me, a man who 
 
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 have spoken the truth to you, 
 which I have heard of God. 
 This Abraham did not. You 
 do the worlvs of your father. 
 Tliey said therefore to him ; 
 We are not born of fornication : 
 We liave one Father, even God. 
 Jesus therefore said to them : 
 if God were your father, you 
 would indeed love me. For 
 from God I proceeded, and 
 came ; for I came not of my- 
 self, but he sent me : Wliy do 
 you not know my speech? Be- 
 cause you cannot hear xxiy word. 
 You are of your father the 
 devil, and the desires of your 
 father you will do. He was a 
 murderer from the beginning, 
 and he stood not in the truth ; 
 because truth is not in him. 
 When he speaketh a lie, he 
 speaketh of his own : for he is 
 a liar, and the father thereof. 
 But if I say the truth, you be- 
 lieve me not. Which of you 
 shall convince me of sin ? If I 
 say the truth to you, why do 
 you not believe me ? He that 
 is of God, heareth the words 
 of God. Therefore you hear 
 them not, because you are not 
 of God. The Jews therefore 
 answered, and said to him : Do 
 not we say well that thou art a 
 Samaritan, and hast a devil? 
 Jesus answered : I have not a 
 devil : but I honour my Father, 
 and you have dishonoured me. 
 But I seek not my own glory : 
 there is one that seeketh and 
 judgeth. 
 
 18. Amen, amen, I say to 
 you : If any man keep my 
 word, he shall not see death 
 
 for ever. The Jews therefore 
 said : Now we know that thou 
 hast a devil. Abraham is dead, 
 and the prophets ; and thou 
 sayest : If any man keep my 
 word, he shall not taste death 
 for ever. Art thou greater 
 than our father Abraham, w4io 
 is dead ? and the prophets are 
 dead. Whom dost thou make 
 thyself? Jesus answered : If 
 I glorify myself, my glory is 
 nothing. It is my Father that 
 glorifieth me, of whom you say 
 that he is your God. And you 
 have not known him, but I 
 know him. And if I shall say 
 that I know him not, I shall be 
 like to you, a liar. But I do 
 know him, and do keep his 
 word. Abraham ^'our father 
 rejoiced that he might see my 
 day : he saw it, and was glad. 
 The Jews therefore said to 
 him : Thou art not yet fifty 
 years old, and hast thou seen 
 Abraham ? 
 
 19. Jesus said to them : 
 Amen, amen, I say to you, be- 
 fore Abraham was made, I am. 
 They took up stones therefore 
 to cast at him. But Jesus hid 
 himself, and went out of the 
 temple. 
 
 20. (John 9. A. D. 32.) 
 Now Jesus passing by, saw a 
 man, who was blind from his 
 birth : And his disciples asked 
 him : Babbi, who hath sinned, 
 this man, or his parents, that 
 he should be born blind ? Jesus 
 answered : Neither hath this 
 man sinned, nor his parents; 
 but that the works of God 
 should be made manifest in him. 
 
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 I must work the works of him 
 that sent me, whilst it is day : 
 the night eometh, when no man 
 * can work. As long as 1 am in 
 the world, I am the light of the 
 world. When he had said these 
 things, he spat on the ground, 
 and made clay of the spittle, 
 and spread the clay upon his 
 eyes. And said to him : Go, 
 wash in the pool of Siloe, which 
 is interpreted, Sent. He went 
 therefore, and washed, and he 
 came seeing. The neighbours 
 therefore, and they who had 
 seen him before that he was a 
 beggar, said: Is not this he 
 that sat and begged? Some 
 said: This is he. But others 
 said : No, but he is like him. 
 But he said: I am he. They 
 said therefore to him: How 
 were thy eyes opened ? He 
 answered : That man that is 
 called Jesus made clay, and an- 
 ointed my eyes, and said to 
 me : Go to the pool of Siloe, 
 and wash. And I went, I 
 washed, and I see. And they 
 said to him : Where is he ? He 
 saith : I know not. The^^ bring 
 him that had been blind to the 
 Pharisees. Now it was the 
 sabbath, when Jesus made the 
 clay, and opened his ej^es. 
 Again therefore the Pharisees 
 asked him, how he had received 
 his sight. But he said to 
 them : He put clay upon my 
 eyes, and I washed, and I 
 see. Some therefore of the 
 Pharisees said : This man is 
 not of God, who keepeth not 
 the sabbath. But others said : 
 How can a man that is a sinner 
 
 do such miracles ? And there 
 was a division among them. 
 They say therefore to the blind 
 man again : What sayest thou 
 of him that hath opened thy 
 eyes ? And he said : He is a 
 prophet. The Jews then did 
 not believe concerning him, that 
 he had been blind, and had re- 
 ceived his sight, until they 
 called the parents of him that 
 had received his sight, and 
 asked them, saying : Is this 
 your son, who 3-0 u say was born 
 blind ? How then doth he now 
 see ? His parents answered 
 them, and said : We know that 
 this is our son, and that he was 
 born blind : But how he now 
 seeth, we know not ; or who hath 
 opened his eyes, we know not ; 
 ask himself; he is of age, let 
 him speak for himself These 
 things his parents said, because 
 they feared the Jews : for the 
 Jews had already agreed among 
 themselves, that if any man 
 should confess him to be Christ, 
 he should be put out of the 
 synagogue. Therefore did his 
 parents say : He is of age, 
 ask him. They therefore called 
 the man again that had been 
 blind, and said to him : Give 
 glory to God. We know that 
 this man is a sinner. He said 
 therefore to them : If he be 
 a sinner, I know not : one 
 thing I know, that whereas I 
 was blind, now I see. They 
 said then to him : AYhat did 
 he to thee ? How did he open 
 thy ej^es ? He answered them : 
 I have told you already, and 
 you have heard : why would you 
 
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 hear it again ? will you also be- 
 come bis disciples ? Tbey re- 
 viled bim tberefore, and said : 
 Be tboii bis disciple ; but we 
 are tbe disciples of Moses. 
 We know tbat God spoke to 
 Moses: but as to this man, we 
 know not from whence he is. 
 The man answered, and said to 
 them: Wh}^ herein is a won- 
 derful thing, that you know not 
 from whence he is, and he hath 
 opened my eyes. Now we know 
 that God doth not hear sinners : 
 but if a man be a server of God, 
 and doth his will, him he hear- 
 eth. From the beginning of 
 the world it hath not been 
 heard, that any man hath 
 opened the eyes of one born 
 blind. Unless this man were 
 of God, he could not do any 
 thing. They answered, and 
 said to him : Thou wast wholly 
 born in sins, and dost thou 
 teach us? And they cast him 
 out. Jesus heard that they had 
 cast him out ; and when he had 
 found him, he said to him : dost 
 thou believe in the Son of God ? 
 He answered, and said : Who 
 is he. Lord, that I may believe 
 in him ? And Jesus said to 
 him : Thou bast both seen him ; 
 and it is he that talketh with 
 thee. And he said : I believe. 
 Lord. And falling down, he 
 adored him. And Jesus said : 
 For judgment I am come into 
 this world.; that they who see 
 not, may see ; and they who 
 see, may become blind. And 
 some of the Pharisees, who 
 were with him, heard : and they 
 said unto him : Are we also 
 
 blind ? Jesus said to them : If 
 you were blind you should not 
 have sin : but now you say : 
 We se-e. Your sin remaineth. 
 
 2L (John 10.) Amen, amen, 
 I say to 3'ou : he that entereth 
 not by tbe door into the sheep- 
 fold, but climbeth up another 
 way, the same is a thief and a 
 robber. But he that entereth 
 in by the door is the shepherd 
 of the sheep. To him tbe 
 porter openeth ; and the sheep 
 hear his voice: and he calleth 
 his own sheep by name, and 
 leadeth them out. And when 
 he hath let out his own sheep, 
 he goeth before them : and the 
 sheep follow him, because they 
 know his voice. But a stranger 
 they follow not, but fly from 
 him, because they know not tbe 
 voice of strangers. This prov- 
 erb Jesus spoke to them. But 
 they understood not what he 
 spoke to them. Jesus there- 
 fore said to them again : Amen, 
 amen, I say to you, I am the 
 door of the sheep. All others, 
 as many as have come, are 
 thieves and robbers : and the 
 sheep heard them not. I am 
 the door. By me, if any man 
 enter in, be shall be saved : and 
 be shall go in, and go out, and 
 shall find pastures. The thief 
 Cometh not, but for to steal, and 
 to kill, and to destroy. I am 
 come tbat tbey may have life, 
 and may have it more abun- 
 dantl3^ I am tbe good shep- 
 herd. Tbe good shepherd giveth 
 his life for his sheep. But the 
 hireling, and he that is not the 
 shepherd, whose own the sheep 
 
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 are not, seeth the wolf coming, 
 and leaveth the sheep, and fli- 
 eth : and the wolf catcheth, and 
 scattereth the sheep : And the 
 hireling flieth, because he is a j 
 Jiireling : and he hath no care 
 for the sheep. I am the good | 
 shepherd ; and I know mine, 
 and mine know me. As the 
 Father knoweth me, and I know 
 the Father : and I lay down m}^ 
 life for my sheep. And other 
 sheep I have, that are not of 
 this fold : them also I must 
 bring, and they shall hear my 
 voice, and there shall be one 
 fold and one shepherd. There- 
 fore doth the Father love me : 
 because I lay down my life, 
 that I may take it again. No 
 man taketh it awa}^ from me : 
 but I lay it down of myself, and 
 I have power to lay it down : 
 and I have power to take it up 
 again. This commandment 
 have I received of my Father. 
 A dissension rose again among 
 the Jews for these words. And 
 many of them said : He hath 
 a devil, and is mad : why hear 
 you him ? Others said : these 
 are not the words of one that 
 hath a devil : Can a devil open 
 the eyes of the blind ? 
 
 22. (Luke 11.) Now it 
 came to pass, that as he was 
 in a certain place praying, when 
 he ceased, one of his disciples 
 said to him : Lord, teach us to 
 pray, as John also taught his 
 disciples. And he said to 
 them: When you pray, say: 
 Father, hallowed be thy name. 
 Thy kingdom come. Give us 
 this day our daily bread. And 
 
 forgive us our sins, for we also 
 forgive every one that is in- 
 debted to us. And lead us not 
 into temptation. And he said 
 to them : Which of j'ou shall 
 have a friend, and shall go 
 to him at midnight, and shall 
 say to him : Friend, lend me 
 three loaves. Because a friend 
 of mine is come off his jour- 
 ney to me, and I have not 
 what to set before him. And 
 he from within should answer, 
 and say : Trouble me not, the 
 door is now shut, and m}^ chil- 
 dren are with me in bed ; I can- 
 not rise and give thee. Yet if 
 he shall continue knocking, I 
 say to you, although he will 
 not rise and give him, because 
 he is his friend ; yet, because of 
 his importunity, he will rise, 
 and give him as many as he 
 needeth. And I say to you, 
 Ask, and it shall be given you : 
 seek, and you shall find : knock, 
 and it shall be opened to you. 
 For everyone that asketh, re- 
 ceiveth ; and he that seeketh, 
 findeth ; and to him that knock- 
 eth, it shall be opened. And 
 which of you if he ask his 
 father bread, will he give him a 
 stone ? or a fish, will he for a 
 fish give him a serpent? Or 
 if he shall ask an egg^ will he 
 reach him a scorpion ? If a'ou 
 then, being evil, know how to 
 give good gifts to 3^our chil- 
 dren, how much more will your 
 Father from heaven give the 
 good Spirit to them that ask 
 him ? 
 
 23. (A. D. 32.) Now he 
 was casting out a devil, and 
 
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 the same was dumb : and when 
 he had cast out the devil, the 
 dumb spoke : and the multi- 
 tudes were in admiration at it : 
 But some of them said : He 
 casteth out devils by Beelze- 
 bub, the prince of devils. And 
 others tempting, asked of him 
 a sign from heaven. But he 
 seeing their thoughts, said to 
 them : Every kingdom divided 
 against itself, shall be brought 
 to desolation, and house upon 
 house shall fall. And if satan 
 also be divided against himself, 
 how shall his kingdom stand ? 
 because you say, that through 
 Beelzebub I cast out devils. 
 Now if I cast out devils by 
 Beelzebub; by whom do your 
 children cast them out? There- 
 fore they shall be your judges. 
 But if I by the finger of God 
 cast out devils ; doubtless the 
 kingdom of God is come upgn 
 you. When a strong man 
 armed keepeth his court, those 
 things are in peace which he 
 possesseth. But if a stronger 
 than he come upon him, and 
 overcome him ; he will take 
 away all his armour wherein he 
 trusted, and will distribute his 
 spoils. He that is not with 
 me, is against me ; and he that 
 gathereth not with me, scatter- 
 eth. 
 
 24. When the unclean spir- 
 it is gone out of a man, he 
 walketh through places with- 
 out water, seeking rest ; and 
 not finding, he saith : I will re- 
 turn into my house whence I 
 came out. And when he is 
 come, he findeth it swept and 
 
 garnished. Then he goeth and 
 taketh with him seven other 
 spirits more wicked than him- 
 self, and entering in they dwell 
 there. And the last state of 
 that man becomes worse than 
 the first. 
 
 25. Now it came to pass, as 
 he spoke these things, a certain 
 woman from the crowd, lifting 
 up her voice, said to him : 
 Blessed is the womb that bore 
 thee, and the paps that gave 
 thee suck. But he said : Yea 
 rather, blessed are they who 
 hear the word of God, and keep 
 it. 
 
 26. Now the multitudes 
 running together, he began to 
 say : This generation is a 
 wicked generation : it asketh a 
 sign, and a sign shall not be 
 given it, but the sign of Jonas 
 the prophet. For as Jonas was 
 a sign to the Ninivites ; so shall 
 the son of man also be to this 
 generation. The queen of the 
 south shall rise in the judgment 
 with the men of this genera- 
 tion, and shall condemn them : 
 because she came from the ends 
 of the earth to hear the wisdom 
 of Solomon ; and behold more 
 than Solomon here. The men 
 of Ninive shall rise in the judg- 
 ment with this generation, and 
 shall condemn it ; because they 
 did penance at the preaching of 
 Jonas; and behold more than 
 Jonas here. No man lighteth 
 a candle, and putteth it in a 
 hidden place, nor under a 
 bushel ; but upon a candlestick, 
 that they that come in, may see 
 the light. The light of thy 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
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 enlighten 
 
 body is thy eye. If thy eye be 
 single, thy whole body will be 
 lightsome : but if it be evil, thy 
 body also will be darksome. 
 Take heed therefore, that the 
 light which is in thee, be not 
 darkness. If then thy whole 
 body be lightsome, having no 
 part of darkness ; the whole 
 shall be lightsome ; and as a 
 bright lamp, shall 
 thee. 
 
 27. Now as he was speak- 
 ing, a certain Pharisee prayed 
 him, that he would dine with 
 him. And he going in, sat 
 down to eat. And the Pharisee 
 began to say, thinking within 
 himself, why he was not washed 
 before dinner. And the Lord 
 said to him : Now you Phari- 
 sees make clean the outside of 
 the cup and of the platter ; but 
 your inside is full of rapine and 
 iniquity. Ye fools, did not he 
 that made that which is with- 
 out, make also that which is 
 within? But yet that which 
 remaineth, give alms; and be- 
 hold, all things are clean unto 
 you. But wo to you Pharisees, 
 because you tithe mint and rue 
 and every herb ; and pass over 
 judgment, and the charity of 
 God. Now these things you 
 ougiit to have done, and not to 
 leave tiie other undone. Wo to 
 you, Pharisees, because ^-ou 
 love the uppermost seats in the 
 synagogues, and salutations in 
 the market-place. Wo to you, 
 because you are as sepulchres 
 that appear not, and men that 
 w^alk over, are not aware. And 
 one of the lawyers answering. 
 
 saith to him : Master, in say- 
 ing these things, thou reproach- 
 est us also. And the Pharisees 
 and the lawj^ers began violently 
 to urge him, and to oppress his 
 mouth about many things, ly- 
 ing in wait for him, and seeking 
 to catch something from his 
 mouth, that they might accuse 
 him. 
 
 (Luke 12.) And when great 
 multitudes stood about him, so 
 that they trod one upon an- 
 other, he began to say to his 
 disciples : Beware ye of the 
 leaven of the Pharisees, which 
 is hypocrisy. For there is noth- 
 ing covered, that shall not be 
 revealed : nor hidden, that shall 
 not be known. For whatso- 
 ever things you have spoken 
 in darkness, shall be published 
 in the light : and that which 
 you have spoken in the ear in 
 the chambers, shall be preached 
 on the housetops. 
 
 28. Now I sa}^ to you, my 
 friends : Be not afraid of them 
 who kill the body, and after 
 that have no more that they 
 can do. But I will shew you 
 whom you shall fear ; fear ye 
 him, who after he hath killed, 
 hath power to cast into hell: 
 Yea, I say to you, fear him. 
 Are not five sparrows sold for 
 two farthings, and not one of 
 them is forgotten before God ? 
 Yea, the very hairs of your 
 head are all numbered. Fear 
 not therefore : You are of 
 more value than many spar- 
 rows. 
 
 29. Now I say to you, 
 Whosoever shall confess me be- 
 
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 fore men, him shall the son of 
 man also confess before the 
 Angels of God. But he that 
 shall deny me before men, shall 
 be denied before the Angels of 
 God. And whosoever speaketh 
 a word against the son of man, 
 it shall be forgiven him : but to 
 him that shall blaspheme 
 against the Holy Ghost, it 
 shall not be .forgiven. And 
 when they shall bring you into 
 the synagogues, and to magis- 
 trates and powers, be not solic- 
 itous how or what 3'ou shall 
 answer, or what you shall say ; 
 For the Holy Ghost shall teach 
 you in the same hour what you 
 must say. 
 
 30. Now one of the multi- 
 tude said to him : Master, speak 
 to my brother that he divide 
 the inheritance with me. But 
 he said to him : Man, who hath 
 appointed me judge, or divider, 
 over you ? And he said to 
 them : Take heed, and beware 
 of all covetousness ; for a man's 
 life doth not consist in the 
 abundance of things which he 
 possesseth. And he spoke a 
 similitude to them, saying: 
 The land of a certain rich man 
 brought forth plenty of fruits. 
 And he thought witliin himself, 
 saying : What shall I do, be- 
 cause I have no room where to 
 bestow my fruits? And he 
 said: This will I do: I will 
 pull down my barns, and will 
 build greater ; and into them 
 will I gather all things that are 
 grown to me, and m}^ goods. 
 And I will say to my soul : 
 Soul, thou hast much goods laid 
 
 up for many years, take thy 
 rest; eat, drink, make good 
 cheer. But God said to him : 
 Thou fool, this night do they 
 require thy soul of thee : and 
 whose shall those things be 
 which thou hast provided ? So 
 is he that layeth up treasure 
 for himself, and is not rich to- 
 wards God. And he said to his 
 disciples : Therefore I say to 
 you, be not solicitous for your 
 life, what you shall eat ; nor for 
 your body, what you shall put 
 on. The life is more than the 
 meat, and the body is more 
 than the raiment. Consider the 
 ravens, for they sow not, neith- 
 er do they reap, neither have 
 they storehouse nor barn, and 
 God feedeth them. How much 
 are you more valuable than 
 they ? And which of you, by 
 taking thought, can add to his 
 stature one cubit? If then jq 
 be not able to do so much as 
 the least thing, why are you 
 solicitous for the rest? Con- 
 sider the lilies, how they grow : 
 they labour not, neither do they 
 spin. But I say to you, not 
 even Solomon in all liis glory 
 was clothed like one of these. 
 Now if God clothe in this man- 
 ner the grass that is to-day in 
 the field, and to-morrow is cast 
 into the oven ; how much more 
 you, 3'e of little faith ? And 
 seek not j'ou what you shall 
 eat, or what you shall drink : 
 and be not lifted up on high. 
 For all these things do the na- 
 tions of the world seek. But 
 your Father knoweth that you 
 have need of these things. But 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST, 
 
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 seek ye first the kingdom of 
 God and bis justice, and all 
 these things shall be added un- 
 to you. Fear not, little flock, 
 for it hath pleased your Father 
 to give you a kingdom. Sell 
 what you possess and give 
 alms. Make to yourselves bags 
 which grow not old, a treasure 
 in heaven which faileth not : 
 where no thief approacheth, 
 nor moth corrupteth. For where 
 your treasure is, there will 3'our 
 heart be also. 
 
 31. Let your loins be girt, 
 and lamps burning 'in your 
 hands. And you yourselves 
 like to men who wait for their 
 lord, when he shall return from 
 the wedding ; that when he 
 Cometh and knocketh, they may 
 open to him immediately. 
 Blessed are those servants, 
 whom the Lord when he Com- 
 eth, shall find watching. Amen 
 I say to you, that he will gird 
 himself, and make them sit 
 down to meat, and passing will 
 minister unto them. And if he 
 shall come in the second watch, 
 or come in the third watch, and 
 find them so, blessed are those 
 servants. But this know ye, 
 that if the householder did 
 know at what hour the thief 
 would come, he would surely 
 watch, and open, not suff'er his 
 house to be broken open. Be 
 you then also ready : for at 
 what hour you think not, the 
 son of man will come. And 
 Peter said to him : Lord, dost 
 thou speak this parable to us, 
 or likewise to all? And the 
 Lord said: Who (thinkest 
 
 thou) is the faithful and wise 
 steward, whom his lord setteth 
 over his family, to give them 
 their measure of wheat indue 
 season ? Blessed is that serv- 
 ant, whom when his lord shall 
 come, he shall find so doing. 
 Yerily I say to you, he will set 
 him over all that he possesseth. 
 But if that servant shall say in 
 his heart : My lord is long a 
 coming ; and shall begin to 
 strike the men servants and 
 maidservants, and to eat and 
 to drink and be drunk : The 
 lord of that servant will come 
 in the day that he hopeth not, 
 and at the hour that he know- 
 eth not, and shall separate him, 
 and shall appoint him his por- 
 tion with unbelievers. And 
 that servant who knew the will 
 of his lord, and prepared not 
 himself^ and did not according 
 to his will, shall be beaten with 
 many stripes. But he that 
 knew not, and did things 
 worthy of stripes, shall be 
 beaten with few stripes. And 
 unto whomsoever much is 
 given, of him much shall be re- 
 quired : and to whom they have 
 committed much, of him they 
 will demand the more. 
 
 32. I am come to cast fire 
 on the earth : and what will I, 
 but that it be kindled? And I 
 have a baptism wherewith I am 
 to be baptised : and how am I 
 straitened until it be accom- 
 plished ? Think ye, that I am 
 come to give peace on earth ? I 
 tell you, no; but separation. 
 For there shall be from hence- 
 forth five in one house divided : 
 
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 three against two, and two 
 against tiiree. The father shall 
 he divided against the son, and 
 the son against his fatlier, the 
 mother against the daughter, 
 and the daughter against the 
 mother, the mother-in-law 
 against her daughter-in-law, 
 and the daughter-in-law against 
 her mother-in-law. 
 
 33. Then he said also to 
 the multitudes : When you see 
 a cloud rising from the west, 
 presently you say : A shower 
 is coming : and so it happen- 
 eth : And when ye see the 
 south wind blow, you say : 
 There will be heat ; and it Com- 
 eth to pass. You hypocrites, 
 you know how to discern the 
 face of the heaven and of the 
 earth : but how is it that you 
 do not discern tliis time? And 
 why even of yourselves, do you 
 not judge tbat which is just? 
 
 34. And when thou goest 
 with thy adversary to the 
 prince, whilst thou art in the 
 way, endeavour to be delivered 
 from him : lest perhaps he draw 
 thee to the judge, and the judge 
 deliver thee to the exacter, and 
 the exacter cast thee into pris- 
 on. 1 sav to thee, thou shalt 
 not go out thence, until thou 
 pav the very last mite. 
 
 35. (Luke 13. A. D. 32.) 
 Now there were present, at that 
 very time, some that told him 
 of the Galileans, whose blood 
 Pilate had mingled with their 
 sacrifices. And he answering, 
 said to them : Think you, that 
 these Galileans were sinners 
 above all the men of Galilee, be- 
 
 cause they suffered such things? 
 No, I say to you : but unless you 
 shall do penance, you shall all 
 likewise perish. Or those eigh- 
 teen upon whom the tower fell 
 in Siloe, and slew them : think 
 j'ou, that they also were debt- 
 ors above all the men that dwelt 
 in Jerusalem? No, I say to 
 you ; but except you do pen- 
 ance, you shall all likewise per- 
 ish. 
 
 36. He spoke also this par- 
 able ; A certain man had a fig- 
 tree planted in his vineyard, 
 and he came seeking fruit on it, 
 and found none. And he said 
 to the dresser of the vineyard : 
 Behold, for these three years I 
 come seeking fruit on this fig- 
 tree, and I find none. Cut it 
 down therefore : why cumber- 
 eth it the ground ? But he an- 
 swering said to him : Lord, let 
 it alone this year also, until I 
 dig about it, and dung it. And 
 if happily it bear fruit : but if 
 not, then after that thou shalt 
 cut it down. 
 
 37. Now he was teaching in 
 their synagogue on their sab- 
 bath. And behold there was a 
 woman, who had a spirit of in- 
 firmity eighteen years : and she 
 was bowed together, neither 
 could she look upwards at all. 
 Whom w^hen Jesus saw, he 
 called her unto him, and said 
 to her : Woman, thou art de- 
 livered from thy infirmitj'. 
 And he laid his hands upon 
 her, and immediately she was 
 made straight, and glorified 
 God. 
 
 38. Now the ruler of the 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 69 
 
 synagogue (being angry that 
 Jesus had healed on the sab- 
 bath,) answering said to the 
 multitude : Six days there are 
 wherein you ought to work. In 
 them therefore come, and be 
 healed ; and not on the sabbath 
 day. And the Lord answering 
 him, said : Ye hypocrites, doth 
 not every one of you, on the 
 sabbath day, loose his ox or his 
 ass from the manger, and lead 
 them to water? And ought 
 not this daughter of Abraham, 
 whom satan hath bound, lo, 
 these eighteen years, be loosed 
 from this bond on the sabbath 
 day ? And when he said these 
 things, all his adversaries were 
 ashamed : and all the people 
 rejoiced for all the things that 
 were gloriously done by him. 
 
 39. He said therefore : To 
 what is the kingdom of God 
 like, and whereunto shall I re- 
 semble it ? It is like to a grain 
 of mustard-seed, which a man 
 took and cast into his garden, 
 and it grew and became a great 
 tree, and the birds of the air 
 lodged in the branches thereof. 
 And again he said : Where- 
 unto shall I esteem the king- 
 dom of God to be like ? It is 
 like to leaven, which a woman 
 took and hid in three measures 
 of meal, till the whole was leav- 
 ened. And he went through 
 the cities and towns teaching, 
 and making his journey to Je- 
 rusalem. 
 
 40. (John 10.) Now it was 
 the feast of the dedication at 
 Jerusalem : and it was winter. 
 And Jesus walked in the tem- 
 
 ple, in Solomon's porch. The 
 Jews therefore came round 
 about him, and said to him : 
 How long dost thou hold our 
 souls in suspense? If thou be 
 the Christ, tell us plainly. 
 Jesus answered them : I speak 
 to you, and you believe not: 
 the works that I do in the name 
 of my Father, they give testi- 
 mony of me. But you do not 
 believe, because you are not of 
 my sheep. My sheep hear my 
 voice : and I know them, and 
 they follow me. And I give 
 them life everlasting ; and they 
 shall not perish for ever, and no 
 man shall pluck them out of my 
 hand. That which my Father 
 hath given me, is greater than 
 all : and no one can snatch 
 them out of the hand of my 
 Father. I and the Father are 
 one. The Jews then took up 
 stones to stone him. Jesus an- 
 swered them : Many good 
 works I have shewed you from 
 my Father ; for which of those 
 works do you stone me ? The 
 Jews answered him : For a 
 good work we stone thee not, 
 but for blasphemy ; and because 
 that thou, being a man, makest 
 thyself God? Jesus answered 
 them : Is it not written in 
 your law : / said you are gods ? 
 If he called them gods, to whom 
 the word of God was spoken, 
 and the scripture cannot be 
 broken ; Do you say of him 
 whom the Father hath sancti- 
 fied and sent into the w^orld : 
 Thou blasphemest, because I 
 said, I am the Son of God ? If 
 I do not the works of my Fa- 
 
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 tber, believe me not. Butifldo, 
 though you will not believe me, 
 believe the works : that 3^011 
 may know and believe that the 
 
 Father is in me, and I in the 
 Father. They sought there- 
 fore to take him ; and he es- 
 caped out of their hands. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 WARNINGS AND EXHORTATIONS. 
 
 1. (John 10. A. D. 32.) 
 Now he went again beyond the 
 Jordan, into that place where 
 John was baptizing first ; and 
 there he abode. And many re- 
 sorted to him, and they said : 
 John indeed did no sign. But 
 all things whatsoever John said 
 of this man, were true. And 
 many believed in him. 
 
 2. (Luke 13.) Now a cer- 
 tain man said to him : Lord, 
 are they few that are saved ? 
 But he said to them : Strive 
 to enter by the narrow gate ; 
 for many, I say to you, shall 
 seek to enter, and shall not be 
 able. But when the master of 
 the house shall be gone in, and 
 shall shut the door, you shiill 
 begin to stand without, and 
 knock at the door, saying: 
 Lord, open to us. And he an- 
 swering, shall say to you : I 
 know you not, whence you are. 
 Then you shall begin to say : 
 We have eaten and drunk in 
 thy presence, and thou hast 
 taught in our streets. And he 
 shall say to you : I know 3' ou 
 not, whence 3^ou are : depart 
 from me, all ye workers of iniq- 
 
 uity. There shall be weeping 
 and gnashing of teeth, when 
 3'ou shall see Abraham and 
 Isaac and Jacob, and all the 
 prophets, in the kingdom of 
 Grod, and you yourselves thrust 
 out. And there shall come 
 from the east and the west, and 
 the north and the south ; and 
 shall sit down in the kingdom 
 of God. And behold, they are 
 last that shall be first ; and they 
 are first that shall be last. 
 
 3. The same da}^, there 
 came some of the Pharisees, 
 saying to him : Depart, and 
 get thee hence, for Herod hath 
 a mind to kill thee. And he 
 said to them : Go and tell that 
 fox, Behold, I cast out devils, 
 and do cures to-day and to- 
 morrow, and the third day I am 
 consummated. Nevertheless I 
 must walk to-day and to-mor- 
 row, and the day following, be- 
 cause it cannot be that a 
 prophet perish out of Jerusa- 
 lem. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 
 that killest the prophets, and 
 stonest them that are sent to 
 theo, how often would I have 
 gathered thy children as the 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 71 
 
 bird doth her brood under her 
 wings, and thou wouldest not ? 
 Behold your house shall be left 
 to you desolate. And I say to 
 you, that you shall not see me 
 till the time come, when you 
 shall say : Blessed is he that 
 Cometh in the name of the 
 Lord. 
 
 4. (Luke 14.) Now it came 
 to pass, wiien Jesus went into 
 the house of one of the chief of 
 the Pharisees, on the sabbath^ 
 day, to eat bread, that they 
 watched him. And behold, 
 there was a certain man before 
 him that had the dropsy. And 
 Jesus answering, spoke to the 
 lawyers and Pharisees, saying : 
 Is it lawful to heal on the sab- 
 bath day ? But they held their I 
 peace. But he taking him, 
 healed him, and sent him away. 
 And answering them, he said : 
 Which of you shall have an ass 
 or an ox fall into a pit, and will 
 not immediately draw him out, 
 on the sabbath-day ? And they 
 could not answer him to these 
 things. 
 
 5. Now he spoke a parable 
 also to them, that were invited, 
 marking how they chose the 
 first seats at the table, saying 
 to them : When thou art invit- 
 ed to a wedding, sit not down 
 in the first place, lest perhaps 
 one more honourable than thou 
 be invited by him : and he 
 that invited thee and him, come 
 and say to thee, give this man 
 place : and then thou begin 
 with shame to take the lowest 
 place. But when thou art in- 
 vited, go, sit down in the low- 
 
 est place ; that when he who in- 
 vited thee, Cometh, he may say 
 to thee : Friend, go up higher. 
 Then shalt thou have glory be- 
 fore them that sit at table with 
 thee. Because every one that 
 exalteth himself, shall be hum- 
 bled ; and he that humbleth 
 himself, shall be exalted. And 
 he said to him also that had in- 
 vited him : When thou makest 
 a dinner or a supper, call not 
 thy friends, nor thy brethren, 
 nor thy kinsmen, nor thy neigh- 
 bours who are rich ; lest per- 
 haps they also invite thee again, 
 and a recompense be made to 
 thee. But when thou makest a 
 feast, call the j^oor, the maimed, 
 the lame, and the blind ; And 
 thou shalt be blessed, because 
 they have not wherewith to 
 make thee recompense : for rec- 
 ompense shall be made thee at 
 the resurrection of the just. 
 
 6. When one of them that 
 sat at table with him, had heard 
 these things, he said to him r 
 Blessed is he that shall eat 
 bread in the kingdom of God. 
 But he said to him : A certain 
 man made a great supper, and 
 invited raan3^ And he sent his 
 servant at the hour of supper 
 to say to them that were in- 
 vited, that they should come, 
 for now all things are read3\ 
 And they began all at once to 
 make excuse. The first said to 
 him : I have bought a farm, and 
 I must needs go out and see it : 
 I pray thee, hold me excused. 
 And another said : I have 
 bought five yoke of oxen, and I 
 go to try them : I pray thee, 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST, 
 
 hold me excused. And another 
 said: I have married a wife, 
 and therefore I cannot come. 
 And the servant returning, told 
 these things to his lord. Then 
 the master of the house, being 
 angry, said to his servant : Go 
 out quickly into the streets and 
 lanes of the city, and bring in 
 hither the poor, and the feeble, 
 and the blind, and the lame. 
 And the servant said : Lord it 
 is done as thou hast com- 
 manded, and yet there is room. 
 And the Lord said to the serv- 
 ant : Go out into the highways 
 and hedges, and compel them to 
 come in, that my house may be 
 filled. But I say unto you, that 
 none of those men that were in- 
 vited, shall taste of my supper. 
 7. Now there went great 
 multitudes with him. And 
 turning, he said to them : If 
 any man come to me, and hate 
 not his father, and mother, and 
 wife, and children, and breth- 
 ren, and sisters, yea and his 
 own life also, he cannot be my 
 disciple. And whosoever doth 
 not carry his cross and come 
 after me, cannot be my disciple. 
 For which of you having a mind 
 to build a tower, doth not first 
 sit down, and reckon the 
 charges that are necessar^^ 
 whether he have wherewithal to 
 finish it: Lest, after he hath 
 laid the foundation, and is not 
 able to finish it, all that see it 
 begin to mock laim. Saying : 
 This man began to build, and 
 was not able to finish. Or what 
 king, about to go to make war 
 against another king, doth not 
 
 first sit down, and think wheth- 
 er he be able, with ten thou- 
 sand, to meet him that, with 
 twenty thousand, cometh 
 against him ? Or else, whilst 
 the other is yet afar off", send- 
 ing an embassy, he desireth 
 conditions of peace. So like- 
 wise every one of you tbat doth 
 not renounce all that he pos- 
 sesseth, cannot be my disciple. 
 Salt is good. But if the salt 
 shall lose its savour, wherewith 
 shall it be seasoned? It is 
 neither profitable for the land 
 nor for the dunghill, but shall 
 be cast out. He that hath ears 
 to hear, let him hear. 
 
 8. (Luke 15. A. D. 32.) Now 
 the publicans and sinners drew 
 near unto him to hear him. And 
 the Pharisees and the scribes 
 murmured, saying : This man 
 receiveth sinners, and eateth 
 with them. And he spoke to 
 them this parable, saying: 
 What man of you that hath an 
 hundred sheep : and if he shall 
 lose one of them, doth he not 
 leave the ninety-nine in the des- 
 ert, and go after that which 
 was lost, until he find it ? And 
 when he hath found it, lay it 
 upon his shoulders, rejoicing : 
 And coming home, call together 
 his friends and neighbours, say- 
 ing to them : Rejoice with mie, 
 because I have found my sheep 
 that was lost? I say to j^ou, 
 that even so there shall be joy 
 in heaven upon one sinner that 
 doth penance, more than up- 
 on ninet3-nine just who need 
 not penance. Or what woman 
 having ten groats ; if she lose 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 one groat, cloth not light a can- 
 dle, and sweep the house, and 
 seek diligently until she find it? 
 And when she hath found it, 
 call together her friends and 
 neighbours, saying : Rejoice 
 with me, because I have found 
 the groat which I had lost. So 
 I say to you, there shall be joy 
 before the Angels of God upon 
 one sinner doing penance. 
 
 9. Then he said : A certain 
 man had two sons: And the 
 younger of them said to his 
 father : Father, give me the 
 portion of substance that falleth 
 to me. And he divided unto 
 them his substance. And not 
 many days after, the younger 
 son, gathering all together, 
 went abroad into a far country : 
 and there wasted his substance, 
 living riotously. And after he 
 had spent all, there came a 
 mighty famine in that country ; 
 and he began to be in want. 
 And he went and cleaved to one 
 of the citizens of that country. 
 And he sent him into his farm 
 to feed swine. And he would 
 fain have filled his belly with 
 the husks the swine did eat ; and 
 no man gave unto him. And 
 returning to himself, he said : 
 How many hired servants in 
 my father's house abound with 
 bread, and I here perish with 
 hunger? I will arise, and will 
 go to my father, and say to 
 him : Father, I have sinned 
 against heaven, and before thee : 
 I am not worthy to be called 
 thy son : make me as one of 
 thy hired servants. And rising 
 up he came to his father. And 
 
 when he was yet a great way 
 off, his father saw him, and was 
 moved with compassion, and 
 running to him fell upon his 
 neck, and kissed him. And the 
 son said to him : Father, I have 
 sinned against heaven, and be- 
 fore thee, I am not now worthy 
 to be called thy son. And the 
 father said to his servants : 
 Bring forth quickly the first 
 robe, and put it on him, and 
 put a ring on his hand, and 
 shoes on his feet : And bring 
 hither the fatted calf, and kill 
 it, and let us eat and make 
 merry : Because this my son 
 was dead, and is come to life 
 again : was lost, and is found. 
 And they began to be merry. 
 Now his elder son was in the 
 field, and when he came and 
 drew nigh to the house, he 
 heard music and dancing : And 
 he called one of the servants, 
 and asked, what thes^e things 
 meant. And he said to him : 
 Thy brother is come, and thy 
 father hath killed the fatted 
 calf, because he hath received 
 him safe. And he was angry, 
 and would not go in. His father 
 therefore coming out began to 
 entreat him. And he answer- 
 ing, said to his father : Behold, 
 for so many years do I serve 
 thee, and I have never trans- 
 gressed thy commandment, and 
 yet thou hast never given me a 
 kid to make merry with my 
 friends : But as soon as this 
 thy son is come, who hath de- 
 voured his substance with har- 
 lots, thou hast killed for him the 
 fatted calf. B u t he said to him : 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 Son, thou art always with me, 
 and all I have is thine. But it 
 was fit that we should make 
 merry and be glad, for this thy 
 brother was dead and is come 
 to life again ; he was lost, and 
 is found. 
 
 10. (Luke 16.) Now he said 
 , also to his disciples : There was a 
 certain rich man who had a stew- 
 ard : and the same was accused 
 unto him, that he had wasted his 
 goods. And he called him, and 
 said to him : How is it that I 
 hear this of tbee? give an ac- 
 count of thy stewardship : for 
 now thou canst be steward no 
 longer. And the steward said 
 within himself: What shall I 
 do, because my lord taketh 
 away from me the stewardship ? 
 to dig I am not able ; to beg I 
 am asiiamed. I know what I 
 will do, that when I shall be 
 removed from the stewardship, 
 they may receive me into their 
 houses. Therefore calling to- 
 gether every one of his lord's 
 debtors, he said to the first : 
 How much dost thou owe m}^ 
 lord? But he said : An hun- 
 dred barrels of oil. And he 
 said to him : Take thy bill and 
 sit down quickly, and write 
 fifty. Then he said to another : 
 And how much dost thou owe? 
 Who said : An hundred quar- 
 ters of wheat. He said to him : 
 Take thy bill, and write eighty. 
 And the lord commended the 
 unjust steward, forasmuch as 
 he had done wisely ; for the 
 children of this world are wiser 
 in their generation than the 
 children of light. And I sa}^ 
 
 to you : Make unto 3"0U friends 
 of the mammon of iniquity ; 
 that when you shall fail, they 
 may receive you into everlast- 
 ing dwellings. 
 
 11, He that is faithful in 
 that which is least, is faithful 
 also in that which is greater : 
 and he that is unjust in that 
 which is little, is unjust also in 
 that which is greater. If then 
 you have not been faithful in 
 the unjust mammon ; who will 
 trust you with that which is 
 the true ? And if you have not 
 been faithful in that wiiich is 
 another's ; w4io will give you 
 that which is your own ? No 
 servant can serve two masters : 
 for either he will hate the one, 
 and love the other ; or he will 
 hold to the one, and despise the 
 other. You cannot serve God 
 and mammon. 
 
 12. Now the Pharisees, who 
 were covetous, heard all these 
 things: and they derided him. 
 And he said to them : You are 
 they w^ho justify yourselves be- 
 fore men, but God knoweth 
 your hearts ; for that which is 
 high to men, is an abomination 
 before God. The law and the 
 prophets were until John ; from 
 that time the kingdom of God 
 is preached, and every one useth 
 violence towards it. And it is 
 easier for heaven and earth to 
 pass, than one tittle of the law 
 to fall. Every one that putteth 
 away his wife, and marrieth 
 another, committeth adultery : 
 and he that marrieth her that 
 is put away from her husband, 
 committeth adultery. 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST, 
 
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 13. There was a certain rich 
 man, who was clothetl in purple 
 and fine linen ; and feasted 
 sumptuously every day. And 
 there was a certain beggar, 
 named Lazarus, who lay at his 
 gate, full of sores, desiring to 
 be filled with the crumbs that 
 fell from the rich man's table, 
 and no one did give him ; more- 
 over the dogs came, and licked 
 his sores. And it came to pass, 
 that the beggar died, and was 
 carried by the angels into Abra- 
 ham's bosom. And the rich 
 man also died : and he was bur- 
 ied in hell. And lifting up his 
 eyes when he was in torments, 
 he saw Abraham afar oflT, and 
 Lazarus in his bosom : And he 
 cried, and said : Father Abra- 
 ham, have mercy on me, and 
 send Lazarus, that he may dip 
 the tip of his finger in water, to 
 cool my tongue : for I am tor- 
 mented in this flame. And 
 Abraham said to him : Son, re- 
 member that thou didst receive 
 good things in thy lifetime, and 
 likewise Lazarus evil things, 
 but now he is comforted ; and 
 thou art tormented. And be- 
 sides all this, between us and 
 you, there is fixed a great 
 chaos : so that they who would 
 pass from hence to you, can- 
 not, nor from thence come 
 hither. And he said : Then, 
 father, I beseech thee, that thou 
 wouldst send him to my father's 
 house, for I have five breth- 
 ren. That he may testify unto 
 them, lest they also come into 
 this place of torments. And 
 Abraham said to him ; They 
 
 I have Moses and the prophets ; 
 I let them hear them. But he 
 : said : No, father Abraham : but 
 if one went to them from the 
 dead, they will do penance. 
 And he said to him : If they 
 hear not Moses and the proph- 
 ets, neither will they believe, if 
 one arise again from the dead. 
 
 14. (Luke 17.) Now he 
 said to his disciples : It is im- 
 possible that scandals should 
 not come : but woe to him 
 through "whom the}^ come. It 
 were better for him, that a mill- 
 stone were hanged about his 
 neck, and he cast into the sea, 
 than that he should scandalize 
 one of these little ones. Take 
 heed to yourselves. If thy 
 brother sin against thee, re- 
 prove him : and if he do pen- 
 ance, forgive him. 
 
 (Mat. 18.) If he shall hear 
 thee, thou shalt gain thy 
 brother. And if he will not 
 hear thee, take with thee one 
 or two more : that in the mouth 
 of two or three witnesses every 
 word may stand. And if he 
 will not hear them : tell the 
 church. And if he will not 
 hear the church, let him be to 
 thee as the heathen and publi- 
 can. Amen I say to you, what- 
 soever you shall bind upon 
 earth, shall be bound also in 
 heaven ; and whatsoever you 
 shall loose upon earth, shall be 
 loosed also in heaven. 
 
 15. Again I say to you, 
 that if two of you shall consent 
 upon earth, concerning any 
 thing whatsoever they shall 
 ask, it shall be done to them by 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 my Father who is in heaven. 
 For where there are two or 
 three gathered together in my 
 name, there am I in the midst 
 of them. 
 
 16. Tlien came Peter unto 
 him and said : Lord, how often 
 shall my brother offend against 
 me, and I forgive him ? till 
 seven times? Jesus saith to 
 him : I say not to thee, till 
 seven times; but till seventy 
 times seven times? Therefore 
 is the kingdom of heaven lik- 
 ened to a king, who would take 
 an account of his servants. And 
 when he had begun to take the 
 account, one was brought to 
 him, that owed him ten thou- 
 sand talents. And as he had 
 not wherewith to pay it, his 
 lord commanded that he should 
 be sold, and his wife and chil- 
 dren and all that he had, and 
 payment to be made. But that 
 servant falling down, besought 
 him, saying : Have patience 
 with me, and I will pay thee 
 all. And the lord of that serv- 
 ant being moved with pity, let 
 him go and forgave him the 
 debt. But when that servant 
 was gone out, he found one of 
 his fellow-servants that owed 
 him an hundred pence ; and 
 laying hold of him, he throt- 
 tled him, saying: Pay what 
 thou owest. And his fellow- 
 servant falling down, besought 
 him, saying: Have patience 
 with me, and I will pay thee 
 all. And he would not : but 
 went and cast him into prison, 
 till he paid the debt. Now his 
 fellow-servants seeing what was 
 
 done, were verj^ much grieved, 
 and they came and told their 
 lord all that w^as done. Then 
 his lord called him ; and said to 
 him : Thou wicked servant, I 
 forgave thee all the debt, be- 
 cause, thou besoughtest me : 
 Shouldst not thou then have 
 had compassion also on thy fel- 
 low-servant, even as I had com- 
 passion on thee ? And his lord 
 being angry, delivered him to 
 the torturers until he paid all 
 the debt. So also shall my 
 heavenly Father do to you, if 
 you forgive not every one his 
 brother from your hearts. 
 
 n. (Luke 17.) Now the 
 apostles said to the Lord : Li- 
 crease our faith. And the Lord 
 said : If 3'ou had faith like to a 
 grain of mustard-seed, you 
 might say to this mulberry- 
 tree. Be thou rooted up, and be 
 thou transplanted into the sea : 
 and it would obey you. 
 
 18. But which of you hav- 
 ing a servant plowing, or feed- 
 ing cattle, will say to him, 
 when he is come from the field : 
 Immediately go, sit down to 
 meat : And will not rather say 
 to him : Make ready my sup- 
 per, and gird thyself, and serve 
 me, whilst I eat and drink, and 
 afterwards thou shalt eat and 
 drink? Doth he thank that 
 servant, for doing the things 
 which he commanded him ? I 
 think not. So you also, when 
 you shall have done all these 
 things that are commanded you, 
 say : We are unprofitable serv- 
 ants ; we have done that which 
 w^e ought to do. 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
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 19. (John 11.) Now there 
 was a certain man sick, named 
 Lazarus, of Bethania, of the 
 town of Mary and of Martha 
 her sister. (And Mary was she 
 that anointed the Lord with 
 ointment, and wiped his feet 
 witli her hair : whose brother 
 Lazarus was sick.) His sis- 
 ters therefore sent to him, say- 
 ing : Lord, behold, he whom 
 thou lovest is sick. And Jesus 
 hearing it, said to them : This 
 sickness is not unto death, but 
 for the glory of God : that the 
 Son of God maj^ be glorified by 
 it. Now Jesus loved Martha, 
 and her sister Mary, and Laz- 
 arus. When he had heard 
 therefore that he was sick, he 
 still remained in the same place 
 two days. Then after that, he 
 said to his disciples : Let us go 
 into Judea again. The disci- 
 ples say to him : Rabbi, the 
 Jews but now sought to stone 
 thee : and goest thou thither 
 again ? Jesus answered : Are 
 there not twelve hours of the 
 day ? If a man walk in the 
 day, he stumbleth not, because 
 he seeth the light of this world : 
 But if he walk in the night, he 
 stumbleth, because the light is 
 not in him. These things he 
 said ; and after that he said to 
 them : Lazarus our Friend 
 sleepeth ; but I go that I may 
 awake him out of sleep. His 
 disciples therefore said : Lord, 
 if he sleep, he shall do well. 
 But Jesus spoke of his death ; 
 and they thought that he spoke 
 of the repose of sleep. Then 
 therefore Jesus said to them 
 
 plainly : Lazarus is dead. And 
 I am glad, for your sakes, that 
 I was not there, that you may 
 believe : but let us go to him. 
 Thomas therefore, who is called 
 Didymus, said to his fellow-dis- 
 ciples : Let us also go, that we 
 may die with him. Jesus 
 therefore came, and found that 
 he had been four days already 
 in the grave. (Now Bethania 
 was near Jerusalem, about fif- 
 teen furlongs off*.) And many 
 of the Jews were come to Mar- 
 tha and Mary, to comfort them 
 concerning their brother. Mar- 
 tha therefore, as soon as she 
 heard that Jesus was come, 
 went to meet him : but Mary 
 sat at home. 
 
 20. Martha therefore said 
 to Jesus : Lord, if thou hadst 
 been here, my brother had not 
 died. But now also I know 
 that whatsoever thou wilt ask 
 of God, God will give it thee. 
 Jesus saith to her : Thy brother 
 shall rise again. Martha saith 
 to him : I know that he shall 
 rise again, in the resurrection 
 at the last day. Jesus said to 
 her : I am the resurrection and 
 the life : he that believeth in 
 me, although he be dead, shall 
 live : And every one that liv- 
 eth, and believeth in me, shall 
 not die forever. Believest thou 
 this ? She saith to him : Yea, 
 Lord, I have believed that thou 
 art Christ the Son of the living 
 God, who art come into this 
 world. 
 
 21. And when she had said 
 these things, she went, and 
 called her sister Mary secretly, 
 
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 saying : the master is come, 
 and calleth for thee. She, as 
 soon as she heard this^ risetii 
 quickly and cometh to him. 
 For Jesus was not yet come 
 into the town : but he was still 
 in that place where Martha had 
 met him. The Jews therefore, 
 who were with her in the house, 
 and comforted her, when they 
 saw Mary that she rose up 
 speedily and went out, followed 
 her, saying : She goeth to the 
 grave to weep there. When 
 Mary therefore was come where 
 Jesus was, seeing him, she fell 
 down at his feet, and saith to 
 him : Lord, if thou hadst been 
 here, my brother had not died. 
 Jesus, therefore, when he saw 
 her weeping, and the Jews that 
 were come with her, weeping, 
 groaned in the spirit, and trou- 
 bled himself, and said : Where 
 have you laid him ? They say 
 to him : Lord, come and see. 
 And Jesus wept. The Jews 
 tlverefore said : Behold how he 
 loved him. But some of them 
 said : Could not he that opened 
 the eyes of the man born blind, 
 have caused that this man 
 should not die? Jesus there- 
 fore again groaning in liimself, 
 cometh to the sepulchre : Now 
 it was a cave ; and a stone was 
 laid over it. Jesus saith : 
 Take away the stone. Martha, 
 the sister of him that was dead, 
 saith to him : Lord, by this 
 time he stinketh, for he is now 
 of four daj^s. Jesus saith to 
 her : Did not I sa}^ to thee, 
 that if thou believe, thou shalt 
 see the glory of God? They 
 
 took therefore the stone awa}'', 
 And Jesus lifting up his eyes 
 said : Father, I give thee thanks 
 that thou hast heard me. And 
 I knew that thou hearest me 
 always; but because of the 
 people who stand about have I 
 said it, that they may believe 
 that thou hast sent me. When 
 he had said these things, he 
 cried with a loud voice : Laz- 
 arus, come forth. And pres- 
 ently he that had been dead 
 came forth, bound feet and 
 hands with winding bands ; and 
 his face was bound about with 
 a napkin. Jesus said to them : 
 Loose him, and let him go. 
 Many therefore of the Jews, 
 who were come to Mary and 
 Martha, and had seen the things 
 Jesus did, believed in him. But 
 some of them went to the Phar- 
 isees, and told them the things 
 that Jesus had done. 
 
 22. (A. D. 32.) The chief 
 priests therefore, and the Phar- 
 isees, gathered a council, and 
 said : What do we, for this man 
 doth many miracles ? If we let 
 him alone so, all will believe in 
 him ; and the Romans will 
 come, and take away our place 
 and nation. But one of them, 
 named Caiphas, being the high- 
 priest that year, said to them : 
 You know nothing. Neither 
 do 3^ou consider that it is ex- 
 pedient for 3^ou that one man 
 should die for the people, and 
 that the whole nation perish 
 not. And this he spoke not of 
 himself: but being the high- 
 priest of that year, he proph- 
 esied that Jesus should die for 
 
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 the nation. And not only for 
 the nation, but to gather to- 
 gether in one the children of 
 God, that were dispersed. From 
 that day therefore they devised 
 to put him to death. Where- 
 
 fore Jesus walked no more 
 openly among the Jews ; but 
 he went into a country near 
 the desert, unto a city that is 
 called Ephrem, and there he 
 abode with his disciples. 
 
 CHAPTER VIIL 
 
 THE LAST JOURNEY. 
 
 afar off; and 
 
 voice saying : 
 
 mercy 
 
 on 
 
 Whom when he saw, he 
 
 1. (Luke 17. A. D. 33.) 
 Now it came to pass, as he was 
 going to Jerusalem, he passed 
 through the midst of Samaria 
 and Galilee. And .as he en- 
 tered into a certain town, there 
 met him ten men that were lep- 
 ers, who stood 
 lifted up their 
 Jesus, master, have 
 us 
 
 said : Go, show yourselves to 
 the priests. And it came to 
 pass, as they went, they were 
 made clean. And one of them, 
 when he saw that he was made 
 clean, went back, with a loud 
 voice glorifying God. And he 
 fell on his face before his feet, 
 giving thanks : and this was a 
 Samaritan. And Jesus an- 
 swering, said. Were not ten 
 made clean ? and where are the 
 nine ? There is no one found 
 to return and give glor^'^ to 
 God, but this stranger. And 
 he said to him : Arise, go thy 
 way ; for thy faith hath made 
 thee whole. 
 
 2. Now being asked by the 
 
 Pharisees, where the kingdom 
 of God should come ? he an- 
 swered them, and said: The 
 kingdom of God cometh not 
 with observation: Neither 
 shall they say : Behold here, or 
 behold there. For lo,the king- 
 dom of God is within you. And 
 he said to his disciples : The 
 days will come, when you shall 
 desire to see one day of the son 
 of man ; and you shall not see 
 it. And the}^ will say to you : 
 See here, and see there. Go ye 
 not after, nor follow them : For 
 as the lightning that lighteneth 
 from under heaven, shineth un- 
 to the parts that are under 
 heaven, so shall the son of man 
 be in his day. But first he 
 must suffer many things, and 
 be rejected by this generation. 
 And as it came to pass in the 
 days of Noe, so shall it be also 
 in the days of the son of man. 
 They did eat and drink, they 
 married wives, and were given 
 in marriage, until the da}' that 
 Noe entered into the ark : and 
 the flood came and destroyed 
 
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 them all. Likewise as it came 
 to pass, in the da^s of Lot : 
 they did eat and drink, they 
 bought and sold, they planted 
 and built. And in the da}^ 
 that Lot went out of Sodom, it 
 rained fire and brimstone from 
 heaven, and destroyed them all. 
 Even thus shall it be in the day 
 when the son of man shall be re- 
 vealed. In that hour, he that 
 shall be on the housetop, and his 
 goods in the house, let him not 
 go down to take them away : and 
 he that shall be in the field, in 
 like manner, let him not return 
 back. Remember Lot's wife. 
 Whosoever shall seek to save 
 his life, shall lose it : and who- 
 soever shall lose it, shall pre- 
 serve it. I say to you : in that 
 night there shall be two men in 
 one bed ; the one shall be taken, 
 and the other shall be left : Two 
 women shall be grinding to- 
 gether : the one shall be taken, 
 and the other shall be left, two 
 men shall be in the field ; the one 
 shall be taken, and the other 
 shall be left. They answering 
 saj' to him : Where, Lord ? Who 
 said to them : Wheresoever the 
 body shall be, thither will the 
 eagles also be gathered together. 
 3. (Luke 18.) Now he 
 spoke also a parable to them, 
 that we ought always to pray, 
 and not to faint. Saying : There 
 was a judge in a certain city, 
 who feared not God, nor re- 
 garded man. And there was a 
 certain widow in that city, and 
 she came to him, saying : 
 Avenge me of m}^ adversary. 
 And he would not for a long 
 
 time. But afterwards he said 
 within himself: Although I fear 
 not God, nor regard man, yet 
 because this widow is trouble- 
 some to me, I will avenge her, 
 lest continually coming she 
 weary me. And the Lord said : 
 Hear what the unjust judge 
 saith. And will not God re- 
 venge his elect who cry to him 
 day and night : and will he 
 have patience in their regard ? 
 I say to you, that he will 
 quickly revenge them. But 
 yet the son of man, when he 
 Cometh, shall he find, think you, 
 faith on earth ? 
 
 4. Now to some who trusted 
 in themselves as just, and de- 
 spised others, he spoke also this 
 parable : Two men went up into 
 tlie temple to pray : the one a 
 Pharisee, and ^the other a pub- 
 lican. The Pharisee standing, 
 prayed thus with himself: O 
 God, I give thee thanks that 
 I am not as the rest of men, ex- 
 tortioners, unjust, adulterers, 
 as also is this publican. I fast 
 twice in a week : I give tithes 
 of all that I possess. And the 
 publican standing afar ofi*, would 
 not so much as lift up his eyes 
 towards heaven ; but struck 
 his breast, saying : God, be 
 merciful to me a sinner. I ^^y 
 to you, this man went down 
 into his house justified rather 
 than the other : because every 
 one that exalteth himself, shall 
 be humbled : and he that hum- 
 bleth himself, shall be exalted. 
 
 5. (Mark 10.) Now rising 
 up from thence, he cometh into 
 the coasts of Judea beyond the 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 81 
 
 Jordan: and the multitudes 
 flock to him again. And as he 
 was accustomed, he taught 
 them as^ain. And the Pharisees 
 coming to him asked him ; Is 
 it lawful for a man to put away 
 his wife? tempting him. But 
 he answering, saith to them : 
 What did Moses command you ? 
 Who said : Moses permitted to 
 write a bill of divorce, and to 
 put her away. To whom Jesus 
 answering, said; Because of 
 the hardness of your heart he 
 wrote you that precept. But 
 from the beginning of the cre- 
 ation, God made them male and 
 female. For this cause a man 
 shall leave his father and 
 mother ; and shall cleave to his 
 wife. And they two shall be 
 in one flesh. Therefore now 
 they are not two, but one flesh. 
 What therefore God hath joined 
 together, let not man put 
 asunder. And in the house 
 again his disciples asked him 
 concerning the same thing. And 
 he saith to them : Whosoever 
 shall put away his wife and 
 marry another, committeth 
 adultery against her. And if 
 the wife shall put away her 
 husband, and be married to 
 another, she committeth adul- 
 tery. 
 
 6 . No w t h ey bro u gh t to li i m 
 young children, that he might 
 touch them. And the disciples 
 rebuked them that brought 
 them. Whom when Jesus saw, 
 he was much displeased, and 
 saith to them : Suffer the little 
 children to come unto me, and 
 forbid them not ; For of such 
 
 6 
 
 is the kingdom of God. Amen 
 1 saj^ to you, whosoever shall 
 not receive the kingdom of 
 God as a little child, shall not 
 enter into it. And embracing 
 them, and laying his hands 
 upon them, he blessed them. 
 
 7. Now when he was gone 
 forth into the way, a certain 
 man running up and kneeling 
 before him, asked him. Good 
 Master, what shall I do that I 
 may receive life everlasting ? 
 And Jesus said to him, Why 
 callest thou me good ? None is 
 good but one, that is God. Thou 
 knowest the commandments : 
 Do not commit adulter^y^ do not 
 kill^ do not steals hear not false 
 witness^ do no fraud ^ honour thy 
 father and mother. But he an- 
 swering said to him : Master, 
 all these things I have observed 
 from my youth. And Jesus 
 looking on him, loved him, and 
 said to him : One thing is want- 
 
 ins unto thee 
 
 go, 
 
 sell whatso- 
 
 ever thou hast, and give to the 
 poor, and thou shalt have treas- 
 ure in heaven ; and come, fol- 
 low me. Who being struck 
 sad at that saying, went away 
 sorrowful : for he had great 
 possessions. And Jesns look- 
 ing round about, saith to his 
 disciples: How hardly shall 
 they that have riches, enter in- 
 to the kingdom of God 1 And 
 the disciples were astonished at 
 his words. But Jesus again 
 
 to them : 
 
 answering. 
 
 saith 
 
 Children, how hard is it for 
 them that trust in riches, to 
 enter into the kingdom of God? 
 It is easier for a camel to pass 
 
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 through the e3^e of a needle, 
 than for a rich man to enter 
 into the kingdom of God. Who 
 wondered the more, saying 
 among themselves : Who then 
 can be saved? And Jesus 
 looking on them, saith : With 
 men it is impossible ; but not 
 with God : for all things are 
 possible with God. And Peter 
 began to say unto him : Be- 
 hold, we have left all things, 
 and have followed thee. 'Jesus 
 answering, said : Amen I say 
 to you, there is no man who 
 hath left house, or brethren, or 
 sisters, or father, or mother, or 
 children, or lands, for my sake 
 and for the gospel, who shall 
 not receive an hundred times 
 as much, now in this time ; 
 houses, and brethren, and sis- 
 ters, and mothers, and children, 
 and lands, with persecutions : 
 and in the world to come life 
 everlasting. But many that 
 are first, shall be last : and the 
 last first. 
 
 8. (Mat. 20.) The kingdom 
 of heaven is like to an house- 
 holder, who went out early 
 in the morning to hire labour- 
 ers into his vineyard. And 
 having agreed with the labour- 
 ers for a penny a day, he 
 sent them into his vineyard. 
 And going out about the third 
 hour, he saw others standing 
 in the market-place idle. And 
 he said to them : Go you also 
 into my vineyard, and I will 
 give you what shall be just. 
 And they went their way. 
 And again he went out about 
 the sixth and the ninth hour. 
 
 and did in like manner. But 
 about the eleventh hour he 
 went out and found others 
 standing, and he saith to them : 
 Why stand you here all the 
 day idle? They say to him: 
 because no man hath hired us. 
 He saith to them : Go 3^ou also 
 into my vineyard. And when 
 evening was come, the lord of 
 the vineyard saith to his stew- 
 ard : Call the labourers and 
 pay them their hire, beginning 
 from the last even to the first. 
 When therefore they were come, 
 that came about the eleventh 
 hour, they received every man 
 a penny. But when the first 
 also came, they thought that 
 they should receive more : and 
 they also received every man a 
 penny. ' And receiving it they 
 murmured against the master 
 of the house, saying: These 
 last have worked but one hour, 
 and thou hast made them equal 
 to us, that have borne the bur- 
 den of the day and the heats. 
 But he answering said to one 
 of them : Friend, I do thee no 
 wrong: didst thou not agree 
 with me. for a penny ? Take 
 what is thine, and go thy way : 
 I will also give to this last even 
 as to thee. Or, is it not lawful 
 for me to do what I will? is 
 thy eye evil, because I am 
 good ? So shall the last be 
 first, and the first last. For 
 many are called, but few cho- 
 sen. 
 9. 
 Now 
 
 going 
 Jesus 
 
 (Mark 10. A. D. 
 
 they were in the 
 up to Jerusalem : 
 went before them. 
 
 33.) 
 way 
 and 
 and 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 83 
 
 they were astonished : and fol- 
 lowing were afraid. 
 
 (Luke 18. A. D. 33.) Then 
 Jesiis took unto him the twelve, 
 and said to them : Behold, we go 
 up to Jerusalem, and all things 
 shall be accomplished which 
 were written by the prophets 
 concerning the son of man. For 
 he shall be delivered to the gen- 
 tiles, and shall be mocked, and 
 scourged, and spit upon : And 
 after they have scourged him, 
 they will put him to death ; 
 and the third day he shall rise 
 again. And they understood 
 none of these things, and this 
 word was hid from them, and 
 they understood not the things 
 that were said. 
 
 10. (Mat. 20.) Then came 
 to him the mother of the sons 
 of Zebedee with her sons, ador- 
 ing and asking something of 
 him. Who said to her : What 
 wilt thou ? She saith to him : 
 Say that these my two sons 
 may sit, the one on thy right 
 hand, and the other on thy left, 
 in thy kingdom. And Jesus 
 answering, said : You know not 
 what 3^ou ask. Can you drink 
 the chalice that I shall drink? 
 They say to him: we can. He 
 saith to them : My chalice in- 
 deed 3'ou shall drink; but to 
 sit on my right or left hand, is 
 not mine to give to you, but 
 to them for whom it is prepared 
 by my Father. And the ten 
 hearing it, were moved with in- 
 dignation against the two 
 brethren. But Jesus called 
 them to him, and said : You 
 know that the princes of the 
 
 gentiles lord it over them ; and 
 they that are the greater, exer- 
 cise power upon them. It shall 
 not be so among you : but who- 
 soever will be the greater among 
 you, let him be your minister : 
 And he that will be first among 
 you, shall be your servant. 
 Even as the son of man is not 
 come to be ministered unto, but 
 to minister, and to give his life 
 a redemption for many. 
 
 11.- (Luke 18.) Now it came 
 to pass, when he drew nigh to 
 Jericho, that a certain blind 
 man sat by the wa3^side, beg- 
 ging. And when he heard the 
 multitude passing by, he asked 
 what this meant. And they 
 told him, that Jesus of Naza- 
 reth was passing by. And he 
 cried out, saying : Jesus, son 
 of David, have mercy on me. 
 And they that went before, re- 
 buked him, that he should hold 
 his peace: but he cried out 
 much more : Son of David, have 
 mercy on me. And Jesus stand- 
 ing, commanded him to be 
 brought unto him. And when 
 he was come near, he asked him, 
 Sa^^ng : What wilt thou that I 
 do to thee ? But he said : Lord, 
 that I may see. And Jesus said 
 to him : Receive thy sight : thy 
 faith hath made thee whole. 
 And immediately he saw, and 
 followed him, glorifying God. 
 And all the jjeople, when they 
 saw it, gave praise to God. 
 
 12. (Luke 19. A. D. 33.) 
 Now entering in, he walked 
 through Jericho. And behold, 
 there was a man named Zach- 
 eus, who was the chief of the 
 
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 publicans, and he was rich. 
 And he sought to see Jesus 
 who he was, and he could not 
 for the crowd, because he was 
 low of stature. And running 
 before, he climbed up into a syc- 
 amore tree, that he might see 
 him; for he was to pass that 
 way. And when Jesus was come 
 to the place, looking up, he saw 
 him, and said to him: Zacheus, 
 make haste and come down ; for 
 this day I must abide in tliy 
 house. And he made haste and 
 came down ; and received him 
 with joy. And when all saw it, 
 they murmured, saying, that 
 he was gone to be a guest with 
 a man that was a sinner. But 
 Zacheus standing, said to the 
 Lord: Behold, Lord,thehalf of 
 my goods I give to the poor; 
 and if I have wronged any man 
 of any thing, I restore him four- 
 fold. Jesus said to him : This 
 day is salvation come to this 
 house, because he t.lso is a son 
 of Abraham. For the son of 
 man is come to seek and to save 
 that which was lost. 
 
 13. As they were hearing 
 these things, he added and spoke 
 a parable, because he was nigh 
 to Jerusalem, and because they 
 thought that the kingdom of 
 God should immediately be man- 
 ifested. He said therefore : A 
 certain nobleman went into a 
 far country, to receive for him- 
 self a kingdom, and to return. 
 And calling his ten servants, he 
 gave them ten pounds, and said 
 to them : Trade till I come. But 
 liis citizens hated him ; and they 
 sent an embassage after him, 
 
 saying : We will not have this 
 man to reign oA^er us. And it 
 came to pass, that he returned, 
 having received the kingdom : 
 and he commanded his servants 
 to be called, to whom he had 
 given the money, that he might 
 know how much every man had 
 gained by trading. And the 
 first came, saying : Lord, thy 
 pound hath gained ten pounds. 
 And he said to him : Well done, 
 thou good servant, because thou 
 hast been faithful in a little, 
 thou shalt have power over ten 
 cities. And the second came, 
 saying : Lord, thy pound hath 
 gained five pounds. And he 
 said to him : Be thou also over 
 five cities. And another came, 
 saying : Lord, behold here is 
 thy pound, which I have kept 
 laid up in a napkin ; For I 
 feared thee, because thou art an 
 austere man : thou takest up 
 what thou didst not lay down, 
 and thou reapest that which 
 thou didst not sow. He saith 
 to him : Out of thy own mouth 
 I judge thee, thou wicked serv- 
 ant. Thou knewest that I was 
 an austere man, taking up what 
 I laid not down, and reaping 
 that which I did not sow : And 
 why then didst thou not give 
 my money into the bank, that 
 at my coming, I might have 
 exacted it with usury ? And he 
 sail! to them that stood by : 
 Take the pound away from him, 
 and give it to him that hath ten 
 pounds. And they said to him : 
 Lord, he hath ten pounds. But 
 I say to )^ou, that to every one 
 that hath shall be given, and he 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 85 
 
 shall abound : and from him that 
 hath not, even that which he 
 hatli, shall be taken from him. 
 But as for those my enemies, 
 who would not have me reign 
 over them, bring them hither, 
 and kill them before me. And 
 having said these things, he 
 went before, going up to Jeru- 
 salem. 
 
 14. (Mat. 20. A. D. 33.) 
 Now when they went out from 
 Jericho, a great multitude fol- 
 lowed him. And behold two 
 blind men sitting by the way- 
 side, heard that Jesus passed 
 by, and they cried out, saying : 
 O Lord, thou son of David, 
 have mercy on us. And the 
 multitude rebuked them that 
 they should hold their peace. 
 But they cried out the more, 
 saying: Lord, thou son of 
 David, have mercy on us. And 
 Jesus stood, and called them, 
 and said: What will ye that I 
 do to you ? They say to him : 
 Lord, that our ej'es be opened. 
 And Jesus having compassion 
 on them, touched their eyes. 
 And immediately they saw, and 
 followed him. 
 
 15. (John 11.) Now the 
 pasch of the Jews was at hand ; 
 and many from the country 
 went up to Jerusalem, before 
 the pasch, to purify themselves. 
 They sought therefore for Je- 
 sus ; and they discoursed one 
 with another, standing in the 
 temple : What think you that 
 he is not come to the festival 
 day ? And the chief priests 
 and the Pharisees had given a 
 commandment, that if an}'^ man 
 
 knew where he was, he should 
 tell, that they might apprehend 
 him. 
 
 (John 12. A. D. 33.) Jesus 
 therefore, six days before the 
 pasch, came to Bethania, where 
 Lazarus had been dead, whom 
 Jesus raised to life. And they 
 made him a supper there : and 
 Martha served: but Lazarus 
 was one of them that were at 
 table with him. Mar^^ therefore 
 took a pound of ointment of 
 right spikenard, of great price, 
 and anointed the feet of Jesus, 
 and wiped his feet with her 
 hair ; and the house was filled 
 with the odour of the ointment. 
 Then one of his disciples, Judas 
 Iscariot, he that w^as about to 
 betray him, said : Why was not 
 this ointment sold for three 
 hundred pence, and given to the 
 poor? Now he said this, not 
 because he cared for the poor ; 
 but because he was a thief, and 
 having the purse, carried the 
 things that were put therein. 
 Jesus therefore said : Let her 
 alone, that she may keep it 
 against the day of my burial. 
 For the poor you have always 
 with you ; but me you have not 
 always. A great multitude 
 therefore of the Jews knew 
 that he was there; and they 
 came, not for Jesus' sake onl}-, 
 but that they might see Laz- 
 arus, whom he had raised from 
 the dead. But the chief priests 
 thought to kill Lazarus also: 
 because many of the Jews, by 
 reason of him, went away, and 
 believed in Jesus. 
 
 16. (Mark 11. Sunday, 
 
86 
 
 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 April 2, A. D. 33.) Now on the 
 next day, when they drew nigh 
 to Jerusalem, and were come to 
 Bethphage, unto Mount Olivet, 
 then Jesus sent two disciples, 
 Saying to them : Go ye into the 
 village that is over against you, 
 and immediately you shall find 
 an ass tied, and a colt with her: 
 loose them and bring them to 
 me. And if any man shall say 
 anything to you, say ye, that 
 the Lord hath need of them : 
 and forthwith he will let them 
 go. And the disciples going, 
 did as Jesus commanded them. 
 They found the colt tied before 
 the gate without, in the meeting 
 of two ways : and tbey loose 
 him. And some of them that 
 stood there, said to them : What 
 do you loosing the colt ? Who 
 said to them as Jesus had com- 
 manded them ; and he let them 
 go with them. And they 
 brought the colt to Jesus ; and 
 the^May their garments on him, 
 and he sat upon him. 
 
 (Mat. 21.) Now all this was 
 done that it mi2:ht be fulfilled 
 which was spoken by the proph- 
 et, saying : Tell ye the daugh- 
 ter of Ston: Behold thy king 
 Cometh to thee^ meek, and sitting 
 upon an ass, and a colt the foal 
 of her that is used to the yoke. 
 
 (Luke 19.) And as he went, 
 they spread their clothes under- 
 neath in the way. And when 
 he was now coming near the de- 
 scent of Mount Olivet, the whole 
 multitude of his disciples began 
 with joy to praise God with a 
 loud voice, for all the mighty 
 works they had seen, Saying: 
 
 Blessed be the king who cometh 
 in the name of the Lord, peace 
 in heaven, and glory on high! 
 And some of the Pharisees, 
 from amongst the multitude, 
 said to him : Master, rebuke thy 
 disciples. To whom he said : 
 I say to you, that if these shall 
 hold their peace, the stones will 
 cry out. 
 
 17. (A. D. 33.) Now when 
 he drew near, seeing the city, 
 he wept over it, saying : If 
 thou also hadst known, and 
 that in this thy da,y,the things 
 that are to thy peace ; but now 
 they are hidden from thy eyes. 
 For the days shall come npon 
 thee : and thy enemies shall cast 
 a trench about thee, and com- 
 pass thee round, and straiten 
 thee on every side. And beat 
 thee flat to the ground, and th}'^ 
 children who are in thee: and 
 they shall not leave in thee a 
 stone upon a stone : because 
 thou hast not known the time 
 of thy visitation. 
 
 18. (Mat. 21.) Now when 
 he was come into Jerusalem, 
 the whole city was moved, say- 
 ing : Who is this? And the 
 people said : This is Jesus the 
 prophet, from Nazareth of Gal- 
 ilee. And there came to him 
 the blind and the lame in the 
 temple; and he healed them. 
 And the chief priests and 
 scribes, seeing the wonderful 
 things that he did, and the 
 children crying in the temple, 
 and saying : Hosanna to the son 
 of David; were moved with 
 indignation, and said to him : 
 Hearest thou what these say ? 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 87 
 
 And Jesus said to them : Yea, 
 have you never read : Out of 
 the mouth of infants and of suck- 
 lings thou hast perfected praise ? 
 And leaving them, he went out 
 of the city into Bethania, and 
 remained there. 
 
 19. (John 12.) Now certain 
 Gentiles had come to Jerusalem 
 for the festival. These therefore 
 came to Philip, who was of 
 Bethsaida of Galilee, and de- 
 sired him, saying : Sir, we 
 would see Jesus. Philip Com- 
 eth, and telleth Andrew. Again 
 Andrew and Philip told Jesus. 
 But Jesus answered them, say- 
 ing : The hour is come, that the 
 son of man should be glorified. 
 Amen, amen, I say to you, un- 
 less the grain of wheat falling 
 into the ground die, itself re- 
 maineth alone. But if it die, it 
 bringeth forth much fruit. He 
 that loveth his life shall lose it ; 
 and he that hateth his life in 
 this world, keepeth it unto life 
 eternal. If any man minister 
 to me, let him follow me ; and 
 where I am, there also shall my 
 minister be. If any man minis- 
 ter to me, him will my Father 
 honour. 
 
 20. Now is my soul trou- 
 bled. And what shall I say ? 
 Father, save me from this 
 hour. But for this cause I 
 came unto this hour. Father, 
 glorify thy name. A voice 
 therefore came from heaven : I 
 have both glorified it, and will 
 glorify it again. The multi- 
 tude therefore that stood and 
 heard, said that it thundered. 
 Others said : An angel spoke 
 
 to him. Jesus answered, and 
 said : This voice came not be- 
 cause of me, but for your sakes. 
 
 21. Now is the judgment 
 of the world: now shall the 
 prince of this world be cast out. 
 And I, if I be lifted up from 
 the earth, will draw all things 
 to m^^self. (Now this he said, 
 signifying what death he should 
 die.) The multitude answered 
 him : We have heard out of 
 the law, that Christ abideth 
 for ever ; and how sayest 
 thou : The son of man must 
 be lifted u])? Who is this son 
 of man ? Jesus therefore said 
 to them : Yet a little while, 
 the light is among you. Walk 
 whilst you have the light, that 
 the darkness overtake you not. 
 And he that walketh in dark- 
 ness, knoweth not whither he 
 goeth. Whilst you have the 
 light, believe in the light, that 
 you may be the children of 
 light. These things Jesus 
 spoke ; and he went away, and 
 hid himself from them. 
 
 22. (Mark 11. Monday, 
 April 3, A. D. 33.) Now the 
 next day when they came out 
 from Bethania, he was hungry. 
 And when he had seen afar 
 off a fig-tree having leaves, he 
 came if perhaps he miglit find 
 anything on it. And when he 
 was come to it, he found noth- 
 ing but leaves. For it was not 
 the time for figs. And answer- 
 ing he said to it : May no man 
 hereafter eat fruit of thee any 
 more for ever. And his disci- 
 ples heard it. And immediate- 
 ly the fig-tree withered away. 
 
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 23. Now they came to Je- 
 rusalem. And when he was 
 entered into the temple, he be- 
 gan to cast out them that sold 
 and bought in the temple, and 
 overthrew the tables of the 
 money-changers, and the chairs 
 of them that sold doves. And 
 he suffered not that any man 
 should carry a vessel through 
 the temple; And he taught, 
 saying to them : Is it not 
 written, My house shall he 
 called the house of prayer to 
 all nations'^ But you have 
 made it a den of thieves. 
 Which when the chief priests 
 and the scribes had heard, they 
 sought how they might de- 
 stroy him. For they feared 
 him, because the whole multi- 
 tude was in admiration at his 
 doctrine. And when evening 
 was come, he went forth out of 
 the city. 
 
 24. (Tuesday, April 4, A. 
 D. 33.) Now when they passed 
 by in the morning they saw the 
 lig-tree dried up from the roots. 
 And Peter remembering, said 
 to him : Rabbi, behold the fig- 
 tree, which thou didst curse, is 
 withered away. And Jesus 
 answering saith to them : Have 
 the faith of God. Amen I say 
 to 3'ou, that whosoever shall 
 say to this mountain. Be thou 
 removed and be cast into the 
 sea, and shall not stagger in his 
 heart, but believe, that whatso- 
 ever he saith shall be done ; it 
 shall be done unto him. There- 
 fore I say unto you, all things, 
 whatsoever you ask when ye 
 pray, believe that you shall re- 
 
 ceive ; and they shall come un- 
 to you. 
 
 25. And when you shall 
 stand to pray, forgive, if 3'ou 
 have aught against any man ; 
 that your Father also, who is 
 in heaven, may forgive 3^ou 
 3^our sins. But if j^ou will not 
 forgive, neither will your 
 Father that is in heaven, for- 
 give 3'ou 3^our sins. 
 
 26. (Luke 20.) Now it came 
 to pass, that on one of the days, 
 as he was teaching the people in 
 the temple, and preaching the 
 gospel, the chief priests and the 
 scribes, with the ancients, met 
 together, And spoke to him, 
 sa3Mng : Tell us, by what au- 
 thorit3^ dost thou these things? 
 or. Who is he that hath given 
 thee this authority ? And Jesus 
 answering, said to them : I will 
 also ask you one thing. An- 
 swer me : The baptism of John 
 was it from heaven, or of men ? 
 But they thought within them- 
 selves, saying': If we shall sa3'' 
 From heaven : he will say : Why 
 then did 3"ou not believe him ? 
 But if we say. Of men^ the 
 whole people will stone us : for 
 they are persuaded that John 
 was a prophet. And the3'' an- 
 swered, that they knew not 
 whence it was. And Jesus 
 said to them : Neither do I tell 
 thee by what authority I do 
 these things. 
 
 27. (Mat. 21.) But what 
 think you ? A certain man had 
 two sons; and coming to the 
 first, he said : Son, go work to- 
 da3'^ in m3" vine3^ard. And he 
 answering, said : I will not. 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 But afterwards, being moved 
 with repentance, he went. And 
 coming to the other, he said in 
 like manner. And he answer- 
 ing, said : I go, Sir ; and he 
 went not. Which of the two 
 did the father's will ? They say 
 to him : Tlie first. Jesus saith 
 to them : Amen I say to you, 
 that the publicans and the har- 
 lots shall go into the kingdom 
 of God before you. For John 
 came to you in the way of 
 justice, and you did not believe 
 him. But the publicans and 
 the harlots believed him : but 
 you, seeing it, did not even 
 afterwards repent, that you 
 might believe him. 
 
 28. Hear 3^e another para- 
 ble. There was a man an 
 householder, who planted a 
 vineyard, and made a hedge 
 round about it, and dug in it a 
 press, and built a tower, and let 
 it out to husbandmen ; and went 
 into a strange country. And 
 when the time of the fruits drew 
 nigh, he sent his servants to the 
 husbandmen that they might 
 receive the fruits thereof. And 
 the husbandmen laying hands 
 on his servants, beat one, and 
 killed another, and stoned an- 
 other. Again he sent other 
 servants more than the former; 
 and they did to them in like 
 manner. And last of all he 
 sent to them his son, saying: 
 They will reverence my son. 
 But the husbandmen seeing the 
 son, said among themselves : 
 This is the heir: come, let us 
 kill him, and we shall have his 
 inheritance. And taking him, 
 
 they cast him forth out of the 
 vineyard, and killed him. 
 When therefore the lord of the 
 vineyard shall come, what will 
 he do to those husbandmen? 
 They say to him : He will 
 bring those evil men to an evil 
 end ; and will let out his vine- 
 yard to other husbandmen, that 
 shall render him the fruit in 
 due season. Jesus saith to 
 them : Have j^ou never read in 
 the Scriptures : The stone which 
 the builders rejected, the same 
 is become the head of the cor- 
 ner? By the Lord this has 
 been done ; and it is wonderful 
 in our eyes. Therefore I say 
 to you, that the kingdom of 
 God shall be taken from J^ou, 
 and shall be giyen to a nation 
 yielding the fruits thereof. 
 And whosoever shall fall on 
 this stone, shall be broken : but 
 on whomsoever it shall fall,. it 
 shall grind him to powder. 
 And when the chief priests and 
 Pharisees had heard his para- 
 bles, they knew that he spoke 
 of them. And seeking to lay 
 hands on him, they feared the 
 multitudes : because they held 
 him as a prophet. And leaving 
 him they went their way. 
 
 29. (Mat. 22.) Now Jesus 
 answering, spoke again in para- 
 bles to them, saying : The king- 
 dom of heaven is likened to a 
 king, who made a marriage for 
 his son. And he sent his serv- 
 ants, to call them that were 
 invited to the marriage; and 
 they would not come. Again 
 he sent other servants, saying : 
 Tell tbem that were invited. 
 
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 Behold, I have prepared my 
 dinner ; my beeves and fallings 
 are killed, and all things are 
 ready : come ye to the mar- 
 riage. But they neglected, and 
 went their ways, one to his 
 farm, and another to his mer- 
 chandise. And the rest laid 
 hands on his servants, and hav- 
 ing treated them contumelious- 
 ly, put them to death. But 
 when the king had heard of it, 
 he was angry, and sending his 
 armies, he destroj^ed those mur- 
 derers, and burnt their city. 
 Then he saith to his servants : 
 The marriage indeed is ready ; 
 but they that were invited were 
 not worthy. Go ye therefore 
 into the highwa}- s ; and as 
 many as you sliall find, call to 
 the marriage. And his serv- 
 ants going forth into the ways, 
 gathered together all that they 
 found, both bad and good : and 
 the marriage was filled with 
 guests. And the king went in 
 to see the guests : and he saw 
 there a man who had not on a 
 wedding garment. And he 
 saith to him : Friend, how 
 camest thou in hither not hav- 
 ing on a wedding garment ? 
 But he was silent. Then the 
 king said to the waiters : Bind 
 his hands and feet, and cast 
 him into the exterior darkness : 
 there shall be weeping and 
 gnashing of teeth. For many 
 are called, but few are chosen. 
 
 30. Then the Pharisees 
 going, consulted among them- 
 selves how to insnare him in 
 his speech. And they sent to 
 him their disciples with the 
 
 Herodians, saying : Master, we 
 know that thou art a true 
 speaker, and teachest the way 
 of God in truth, neither carest 
 thou for any man : for thou 
 dost not regard the person of 
 men. Tell ns therefore what 
 dost thou think, is it lawful to 
 give tribute to Cesar, or not? 
 But Jesus knowing their wick- 
 edness, said : Why do yon 
 tempt me, 3^e hypocrites? Shew 
 me the coin of the tribute. And 
 they offered him a penny. And 
 Jesus saith to them : Whose 
 image and inscription is this? 
 They say to him : Cesar's. 
 Then he saith to them : Render 
 therefore to Cesar the things 
 that are Cesar's ; and to God, 
 the things that are God's. And 
 hearing this they wondered, 
 and leaving him, went their 
 ways. 
 
 31. That day there came to 
 him the Sadducees, who say 
 there is no resurrection ; and 
 asked him, saying: Master, 
 Moses said ; If f, man die 
 having no son^ his brother shall 
 marry his ivife^ and raise up 
 issue to his brother. Now there 
 were with us seven brethren : 
 and the first having married a 
 wife, died ; and not having issue, 
 left his wife to his brother. In 
 like manner the second, and the 
 third, and so on to the seventh. 
 And last of all the woman died 
 also. At the resurrection there- 
 fore whose wife of the seven 
 shall she be ? for they all had 
 her. And Jesus answering, 
 said to them : You err, not 
 knowing the Scriptures, nor 
 
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 91 
 
 the power of God. For in the 
 resurrection they shall neither 
 marry nor be married ; but 
 shall be as the Angels of God 
 in heaven. And concerning the 
 resurrection of the dead, have 
 you not read that which was 
 spoken by God, saying to you : 
 / am the God of Abraham^ and 
 the God of Isaac , and the God 
 of Jacob ? He is not the God of 
 the dead, but of the living. 
 And the multitudes hearing it, 
 were in admiration at his doc- 
 trine. 
 
 32. But the Pharisees hear- 
 ing that he had silenced the 
 Sadducees, came together : And 
 one of them, a doctor of the 
 law, asked him, tempting him : 
 Master, which is the great com- 
 mandment in the law ? Jesus 
 said to him: Thou shalt love 
 the Lord thy God with thy 
 whole hearty and icith thy whole 
 soul, and with thy whole mind. 
 This is the greatest and the 
 first commandment. And the 
 second is like to this: Thou 
 shalt love thy neighbour as thy- 
 self On these two command- 
 ments dependeth the whole law 
 and the prophets. 
 
 33. Now the Pharisees be- 
 ing gathered together, Jesus 
 asked them. Saying: What 
 think you of Christ ? whose son 
 is he ? they say to him : Da- 
 vid's. He saith to them : How 
 then doth David in spirit call 
 him Lord, saying : The Lord 
 said to my Lord, Sit on my 
 right hand, until I make thy 
 enemies thy footstool ? If Da v id 
 then call him lord, how is he 
 
 his son ? And no man was 
 able to answer him a word ; 
 neither durst any man from 
 that day forth ask him any 
 more questions. 
 
 34. (Mat. 23.) Then Jesus 
 spoke to the multitudes and to 
 his disciples, Sa3ing : The 
 Scribes and the Pharisees have 
 sitten on the chair of Moses. 
 All things therefore whatso- 
 ever they sliall say to you, ob- 
 serve and do : but according to 
 their works do ye not ; for they 
 say, and do not. For they 
 bind heavy and insupportable 
 burdens, and lay them on men's 
 shoulders ; but with a finger of 
 their own they will not move 
 them. And all their works 
 they do for to be seen of men. 
 For they make their phylacter- 
 ies broad, and enlarge their 
 fringes. And they love the 
 first places at feast, and the 
 first chairs in the synagogues, 
 and salutations in the market- 
 place, and to be called by men, 
 Rabbi. But be not you called 
 Rabbi. For one is your mas- 
 ter ; and all you are brethren. 
 And call none your father up- 
 on earth ; for one is your father, 
 who is in heaven. Neither be 
 ye called masters ; for one is 
 you master, Christ. He that 
 is the greatest among you shall 
 be your servant. And whoso- 
 ever shall exalt himself shall be 
 humbled : and he that shall 
 humble himself shall be exalted. 
 But wo to your scribes and 
 Pharisees, hypocrites ; because 
 3^ou shut the kingdom of heaven 
 against men, for you yourselves 
 
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 do not enter in ; and those that 
 are going in, you suffer not to 
 enter. Wo to you scribes and 
 Pharisees, hypocrites: because 
 you devour the houses of wid- 
 
 ows, praying 
 
 long 
 
 prayers. 
 
 For this you shall receive the 
 greater judgment. Wo to you 
 scribes and Pharisees, hypo- 
 crites; because you go round 
 about the sea and the land to 
 make one proselyte ; and when 
 he is made, you make him the 
 child of hell twofold more than 
 3^ourselves. 
 
 35. Wo to you blind guides, 
 that saj', whosoever shall swear 
 by the temple, it is nothing ; 
 but he that shall swear by the 
 gold of the temple, is a debtor. 
 Ye foolish and blind ; for wheth- 
 er is greater, the gold, or the 
 temple that sanctifieth the 
 gold? And whosoever shall 
 swear by the altar, it is noth- 
 ing ; but whosoever shall swear 
 by the gift that is upon it, is a 
 debtor. Ye blind : for whether 
 is greater, the gift, or the altar 
 that sanctifieth the gift? He 
 therefore that sweareth by the 
 altar, sweareth by it, and by 
 all things that are upon it : 
 And whosoever shall swear by 
 the temple, sweareth by it, and 
 by him that dwelleth in it : 
 And he that sweareth by heaven, 
 sweareth by the throne of God, 
 and by him that sitteth there- 
 on. 
 
 36. Wo to 3^ou scribes and 
 Pharisees, hypocrites ; because 
 you tithe mint, and anise, and 
 cummin, and have left the 
 weightier things of the law ; 
 
 judgment, and mercy, and faith. 
 These things you ought to have 
 done, and not leave those un- 
 done. Blind guides, who strain 
 out a gnat, and swallow a 
 camel. Wo to you scribes and 
 Pharisees, hypocrites; because 
 3^ou make clean the outside of 
 the cup and of the dish, but 
 within you are full of rapine 
 and uncleanness. Thou blind 
 Pharisee, first make clean the 
 inside of the cup and of the 
 dish, that the outside may be- 
 come clean. Wo to you scribes 
 and Pharisees, hypocrites; be- 
 cause 3'ou are like to whited 
 sepulchres, which outwardly 
 ai)pear to men beautiful, but 
 within are full of dead men's 
 bones, and of all filthiness. So 
 you also outwardly indeed ap- 
 pear to men just ; but inwardly 
 you are full of hypocrisy and 
 iniquity. Wo to 3'on scribes 
 and Pharisees, hypocrites; that 
 build the sepulchres of the 
 prophets, and adorn the monu- 
 ments of the just, and say : If 
 we had been in the days of our 
 Fathers, we would not have 
 been partakers with them in 
 the blood of the prophets. 
 Wherefore you are witnesses 
 against yourselves, that you 
 are the sons of them that killed 
 the prophets. Fill ye up then 
 the measure of 3'our fathers. 
 You serpents, generation of 
 vipers, how will you flee from 
 the judgment of hell? There- 
 fore behold I send to 3^ou 
 prophets, and wise men, and 
 scribes : and some of them 3^ou 
 will put to death and crucify, 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 93 
 
 and some 3'^ou will scourge in 
 
 your synagogues. 
 
 and 
 
 perse- 
 
 cute from city to city : That 
 upon you may come all the just 
 blood that hath been shed upon 
 the earth, from the blood of 
 Abel the just, even unto the 
 blood of Zacharias the son of 
 Barachias, whom you killed be- 
 tween the temple and the altar. 
 Amen I say to you, all these 
 things shall come upon this 
 generation. Jerusalem, Jeru- 
 salem, thou that killest the 
 prophets, and stonest them that 
 are sent unto thee, how often 
 would I have gathered together 
 thy children, as the hen doth 
 gather her chickens under her 
 wings, and thou wouldest not ? 
 Behold, your house shall be 
 left to you, desolate. For I 
 say to you, you shall not see 
 me henceforth till joxx say : 
 Blessed is he that cometh in 
 the name of the Lord. 
 
 37. (Luke 21.) Now look- 
 ing on, he saw the rich men 
 cast their gifts into the treas- 
 ury. And he saw also a certain 
 poor widow casting in two brass 
 mites. And he said : Yerily I 
 say to you, that this poor widow 
 hath cast in more than they all : 
 For all these have of their 
 abundance cast into the offer- 
 ings of God ; but she of her 
 want, hath cast in all the living 
 that she had. 
 
 38. (John 12.) And where- 
 as he had done so many mira- 
 cles before them, they believed 
 not in him : That tiie saying 
 of Isaias the prophet might be 
 fulfilled, which he said : Lord, 
 
 who hath believed our hearing f 
 and to whom hath the arm of 
 the Lord been revealed ? There- 
 fore they could not believe, be- 
 cause Isaias said again : He 
 hath blinded their eyes^ and 
 hardened their heart, that they 
 should not see with their eyes, 
 nor understand ivith their heai^t^ 
 and be converted, and, I should 
 heal them. These things said 
 Isaias, when he saw his glory, 
 and spoke of him. However 
 many of the chief men also be- 
 lieved in him; but because of 
 the Pharisees they did not con- 
 fess him, that they might not 
 be cast out of the sjnagogue. 
 For they loved the glory of 
 men more than the glory of 
 God. But Jesus cried, and 
 said : He that believeth in me, 
 doth not believe in me, but in 
 him that sent me. And he that 
 seeth me, seeth him that sent 
 me. I am come a light into 
 the world ; that whosoever be- 
 lieveth in me, may not remain 
 in darkness. And if an}^ man 
 hear my words, and keep them 
 not, I do not judge him : for I 
 came not to judge the world, 
 but to save the world. He that 
 despiseth me, and receiveth not 
 my words, hath one that 
 judgeth him; the word that I 
 have spoken, the same shall 
 judge him in the last day. For 
 I have not spoken of myself; 
 but the Father who sent me, 
 he gave me commandment what 
 I should sav, and what I should 
 speak. And I know that his 
 commandment is life everlast- 
 ing. The things therefore that 
 
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 I speak, even as the Father 
 said unto me, so do I speak. 
 
 39. (Mat. 10.) Then to his 
 Apostles he said ; But beware 
 of men. For they will deliver 
 you up in councils, and they 
 will scourge you in their syn- 
 agogues. And you shall be 
 brought before governors, and 
 before kings for my sake, for a 
 testimony to them and to the 
 gentiles : But when they shall 
 deliver you up, take no thought 
 how or what to speak: for it 
 shall be given you in that hour 
 what to speak. For it is not 
 you that speak, but the Spirit 
 of your Father that speaketh 
 in you. The brother also 
 shall deliver up the brother to 
 death, and the father the son, 
 and the children shall rise up 
 against their parents, and shall 
 put them to death. And you 
 shall be hated by all men for my 
 name's sake : but he that shall 
 persevere unto the end, he shall 
 be saved. And when they shall 
 persecute you in this city, flee 
 into another. Amen I say to 
 you, 3^ou shall not finish all the 
 cities of Israel, till the son of 
 man come. 
 
 40. (Mat. 24.) Now Jesus 
 being come out of the temple, 
 went away. And his disciples 
 came to show him the buildings 
 of the temple. And he answer- 
 ing, said to them : Do you see 
 all these things ? Amen I say 
 to you there shall not be left 
 here a stone upon a stone that 
 shall not be destroyed. 
 
 41. Now when he was sit- 
 ting on mount Olivet, the dis- 
 
 ciples came to him privately, 
 saying : Tell us when shall 
 these things be? and what shall 
 be the sign of thy coming, and 
 of the consummation of the 
 world ? And Jesus answering, 
 said to them : Take heed that 
 no man seduce you : For many 
 will come in my name saying, 
 I am Christ: and they will se- 
 duce many. And you shall hear 
 of wars and rumors of wars. 
 See that you be not troubled. 
 For these things must come to 
 pass, but the end is not 3^et. 
 For nation shall rise against 
 nation, and kingdom against 
 kingdom ; and there shall be 
 pestilences, and famines, anS 
 earthquakes in places: Now 
 all these are the beginnings of 
 sorrows. Then shall they de- 
 liver you up to be afflicted, and 
 shall put you to death : and you 
 shall be hated by all nations for 
 my name's sake. And then 
 shall many be scandalized : and 
 shall betray one another: and 
 shall hate one another. And 
 many false prophets shall rise, 
 and shall seduce many. And 
 because iniquity hath abound- 
 ed, the charity of many shall 
 grow cold. But he that shall 
 persevere to the end, he shall 
 be saved. And this gospel of 
 the kingdom, shall be preached 
 in the whole world, for a testi- 
 mony to all nations, and then 
 shall the consummation come. 
 When therefore you shall see 
 the abomination of desolation^ 
 which was spoken of by Daniel 
 the prophet, standing in the 
 holy place : he that readeth let 
 
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 him understand. Then they 
 that are in Jiidea, let them flee 
 to the mountains : And he that 
 is on the housetop, let him not 
 come down to take any thing 
 out of his house : And he that 
 is in the field, let him not go 
 back to take his coat. And wo 
 to them that are with child, and 
 tliat giye suck in those days. 
 But pray that your flight be 
 not in the winter, or on the 
 sabbath. For there shall be 
 then great tribulation, such as 
 hath not been from the begin- 
 ning of the world until now, 
 neither shall be. And unless 
 those da3^s had been shortened, 
 no flesh should be saved: but 
 for the sake of the elect those 
 days shall be shortened. 
 
 (Mark 13.) And immediately 
 after the tribulation of those 
 da3^s, the sun shall be darkened 
 and the moon shall not give her 
 light, and the stars shall fall 
 from heaven, and the powers of 
 heaven shall be moved : And 
 then shall appear the sign of 
 the son of man in heaven : and 
 then shall all tribes of the earth 
 mourn : and they shall see the 
 son of man coming in the clouds 
 of heaven with much power and 
 majesty. And he shall send his 
 Angels with a trumpet, and a 
 great voice : and they shall 
 gather together his elect from 
 the four winds, from the farth- 
 est parts of the heavens to the 
 utmost bounds of them. And 
 from the fig-tree learn a para- 
 ble : When the branch thereof 
 is now tender, and the leaves 
 come forth, you know that sum- 
 
 I mer is nigh. So you also, when 
 you shall see all these things, 
 know 3'e that it is nigh even at 
 the doors. Amen I say to you, 
 that this generation shall not 
 pass, till all these things be 
 done. Heaven and earth shall 
 pass, but my w^ords shall not 
 pass. 
 
 42. But of that day and 
 hour no one knoweth, no not 
 the Angels of heaven, but the 
 Father alone. And as in the 
 days of Noe, so shall also the 
 coming of the son of man be. 
 For as in the days before the 
 flood, they w^ere eating and 
 drinking, marrying and giving 
 in marriage, even till that day 
 in which Noe entered into the 
 ark. And they knew not till 
 the flood came, and took them 
 all away ; so also shall the com- 
 ing of the son of man be. Then 
 two shall be in the field : one 
 shall be taken, and one shall be 
 left. Two w^omen shall be grind- 
 ing at the mill : one shall be 
 taken, and one shall be left. 
 Take ye heed, watch and pra3^ 
 For ye know not when the time 
 is. Even as a man who going 
 into a far country, left his 
 house ; and gave authority to 
 his servants over every work, 
 and commanded the porter to 
 watch. Watch ye therefore (for 
 3' ou know not when the lord of 
 the house cometh : at even, or 
 at midnight, or at the cock- 
 crowing, or in the morning.) 
 Lest "coming on a sudden, he 
 find 3'ou sleeping. And what I 
 sa3^ to 3^ou, I sa3^ to all : Watch. 
 
 43. (Mat. 25.) Then shall 
 
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 the kingdom of heaven be like 
 to ten virgins, who taking their 
 lamps went out to meet the 
 bridegroom and the bride. 
 And live of them were foolish, 
 and five wise. But the five 
 foolish, having taken their 
 lamps, did not take oil with 
 them : But the wise took oil 
 in their vessels with the lamps. 
 And the bridegroom tarrying, 
 they all slumbered and slept. 
 And at midnight there was a 
 cry made: Behold the bride- 
 groom Cometh, go ye forth to 
 meet him. Then all those vir- 
 gins arose and trimmed their 
 lamps. And the foolish said to 
 the wise : Give us of your oil, 
 for our lamps are gone out. 
 The wise answered, saying : 
 Lest perhaps there be not 
 enough for us and for you, go 
 ye rather to them that sell, and 
 buy for yourselves. Now whilst 
 they went to buy, the bride- 
 groom came: and they that 
 were ready, went in with him 
 to the marriage, and the door 
 was shut. But at last come 
 also the other virgins, saying : 
 Lord, Lord, open to us. But 
 he answering said; Amen I 
 say to you, I know you not. 
 Watch ye therefore, because 
 3''ou know not the day nor the 
 hour. For even as a man go- 
 ing into a far country, called 
 his servants, and delivered to 
 them his goods. And to one 
 he gave five talents, and to an- 
 other two, and to another one, 
 to every one according to his 
 proper ability : and immediately 
 he took his journey. And he 
 
 that had received the five tal- 
 ents, went his way, and traded 
 with the same, and gained other 
 five. And in like manner he 
 that had received the two, gained 
 other two. But he that had 
 received the one, going his way 
 digged into the earth, and hid 
 his lord's money. But after a 
 long time the lord of those 
 servants came, and reckoned 
 with them. And he that had 
 received the five talents com- 
 ing, brouglit other five talents, 
 saying : Lord, thou didst de- 
 liver to me five talents, behold 
 I have gained other five over 
 and above. His lord said to 
 him : Well done, good and 
 faithful servant, because thou 
 hast been faithful over a few 
 things, I will place thee over 
 many things : enter thou into 
 the joy of thy lord. And he 
 also that had received the two 
 talents came and said : Lord, 
 thou deliveredst two talents to 
 me : behold I have gained other 
 two. His lord said to him : 
 Well done, good and faithful 
 servant : because thou hast been 
 faithful over a few things, I will 
 place thee over many things : 
 enter thou into the joy of thy 
 lord. But he that had received 
 the one talent, came and said : 
 Lord, I know that thou art a 
 hard man ; thou reapest where 
 thou hast not sown, and gather- 
 est where thou hast not strewed. 
 And being afraid I went and 
 hid thy talent in the earth: be- 
 hold here thou hast that which 
 is thine. And his Lord answer- 
 ing, said to him : Wicked and 
 
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 slothful servant, thou knewest 
 that I reap where I sow not, 
 and gather where I have not 
 strewed : Thou oughtest there- 
 fore to have committed my 
 money to the bankers, and at 
 my coming I should have re- 
 ceived my own with usury. 
 Take ye away therefore the tal- 
 ent from him, and give it him 
 that hath ten talents. For to 
 every one that hath shall be 
 given, and he shall abound : but 
 from him that hath not, that 
 also which he seemeth to have 
 shall be taken away. And the 
 unprofitable servant cast ye out 
 into the exterior darkness. 
 There shall be weeping and 
 gnashing of teeth. 
 
 44. Now when the son of 
 man shall come in his majesty, 
 and all the angels with him, 
 then shall he sit upon the seat 
 of his majesty : And all nations 
 shall be gathered together be- 
 fore him, and he shall separate 
 them one from another, as the 
 shepherd separateth tlie sheep 
 from the goats : And he shall 
 set the sheep on his right hand, 
 but the goats on his left. Then 
 shall the king say to them that 
 shall be on his right hand : 
 Come, ye blessed of my Father, 
 possess you the kingdom pre- 
 pared for you from the founda- 
 tion of the world. For I was 
 hungry, and you gave me to 
 eat ; I was thirsty, and you 
 gave me to drink; I was a 
 stranger, and you took me in : 
 Naked, and you covered me: 
 sick, and you visited me : I was 
 in prison, and you came to me. 
 
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 Then shall the just answer him, 
 saying : Lord, when did we 
 see thee hungry, and fed thee ; 
 thirsty, and gave thee drink? 
 And when did we see thee a 
 stranger, and took thee in ? or 
 naked, and covered thee 1 Or 
 when did we see thee sick or in 
 prison, and came to thee ? And 
 the king answering, shall say 
 to them : Amen I say to you, 
 as long as you did it to one of 
 these my least brethren, you 
 did it to me. Then he shall say 
 to them also that shall be on his 
 left hand : Depart from me, 
 you cursed, into everlasting fire 
 which was prepared for the 
 devil and his angels. For I 
 was hungry, and 3^ou gave me 
 not to eat: I was thirsty, and 
 you gave me not to drink. I 
 was a stranger, and you took 
 me not in : naked, and you cov- 
 ered me not : sick and in prison, 
 and you did not visit me. Then 
 they also shall answer him, say- 
 ing : Lord, when did we see 
 thee hungry, or thirsty, or a 
 stranger, or naked, or sick, or 
 in prison, and did not minister 
 to thee ? Then he shall answer 
 them, saying: Amen I say to 
 you, as long as 3^ou did it not 
 to one of these least, neither did 
 you do it to me. And these 
 shall go into everlasting punish- 
 ment : but the just, into life 
 everlasting. 
 
 45. (Mat. 26. Wednesday, 
 April 5, A. D. 33.) Now *it 
 came to pass, when Jesus had 
 ended all these words, he said 
 to his disciples : You know 
 that after two days shall be the 
 
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 pasch, and the son of man shall 
 be delivered up to be crucified : 
 Then were gathered together 
 the chief priests and ancients of 
 the people into the court of the 
 high-priest, who was called 
 Caiphas : And they consulted 
 together, that by subtilty they 
 might apprehend Jesus, and 
 put him to death. But they 
 said : Not on the festival day, 
 
 lest perhaps there should be a 
 tumult among the people. Then 
 went one of the twelve, who was 
 called Judas Iscariot, to the 
 chief priests, and said to them: 
 What will you give me, and 
 I will deliver him unto you ? 
 But they appointed him thirty 
 pieces of silver. And from 
 thenceforth he sought oppor- 
 tunity to betray him. 
 
PART III. 
 
 CHRIST'S PASSION AND DEATH. 
 
 CHAPTER L 
 
 THE LAST SUPPER. 
 
 1. (Mark 14. Thursday, 
 April 6, A. D. 33.) Now the 
 feast of unleavened bread, which 
 is called the pasch, was at hand, 
 on which it was necessary that 
 the pasch should be killed. And 
 he sent Peter and John, saying : 
 Go, and prepare for us the 
 pasch, that we may eat. But 
 they said : Where wilt thou 
 that we prepare ? And he said 
 to them : Behold, as you go 
 into the city, there shall meet 
 you a man carrying a pitcher 
 of water : follow him into the 
 house where he entereth in. 
 And 3''ou shall say to the good- 
 man of the house : The master 
 saith to thee. Where is the 
 guest-chamber, where I may eat 
 the pasch with my disciples ? 
 And he will shew 3^ou a large 
 dining-room, furnished ; and 
 there prepare. And they go- 
 ing, found as he had said to 
 them, and made ready the pasch. 
 
 2. And when evening was 
 come, he cometh with the twelve. 
 And when they were at table 
 and eating, Jesus saith : Amen 
 I say to you, one of you that 
 eateth with me shall betray me. 
 But they began to be sorrow- 
 ful, and to say to him one by 
 one : Is it I ? Who saith to 
 them : One of the twelve, who 
 dippeth with me his hand in the 
 dish. And the son of man in- 
 deed goeth, as it is written of 
 him : but wo to that man by 
 whom the son of man shall be 
 betraved. It were better for 
 him, if that man had not been 
 born. 
 
 3. (John 13.) Jesus know- 
 ing that his hour was come, 
 that he should pass out of this 
 world to the Father : having 
 loved his own who were in the 
 world, he loved them unto the 
 end. And when supper was 
 done, (the devil having now 
 
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 put into the heart of Judas Is- 
 cariot, the son of Simon, to be- 
 tray him,) knowing that the 
 Father had given him all things 
 into his hands, and that he came 
 from God, and goeth to God ; 
 He riseth from supper, and 
 hiyeth aside his garments, and 
 liaving taken a towel, girded 
 himself. After that, he putteth 
 water into a basin, and began 
 to wash the feet of the disciples, 
 and to wipe them with the 
 towel wherewith he was girded. 
 He Cometh therefore to Simon 
 Peter. And Peter saith to him : 
 Lord, dost thou wash my feet ? 
 Jesus answered, and said to 
 him : What I do thou knowest 
 not now ; but thou shalt know 
 liereafter. Peter saith to him : 
 Thou shalt never wash my feet. 
 Jesus answered him : If I wash 
 thee not, thou shalt have no 
 part with me. Simon Peter 
 saith to him : Lord, not only 
 my feet, but also my hands and 
 my head. Jesus saith to him : 
 He that is washed, needeth not 
 but to wash his feet, but is clean 
 wholly. And you are clean, 
 but not all. For he knew who 
 he was that would betray him ; 
 therefore he said : You are not 
 all clean. Then after he had 
 washed their feet, and taken 
 liis garments, being sat down 
 again, he said to them : Know 
 you what I have done to you ? 
 You call me Master, and Lord ; 
 and you say well, for so I am. 
 If then I being your Lord and 
 Master, have washed your feet ; 
 you also ought to wash one an- 
 other's feet. For I have given 
 
 you an example, that as I have 
 done to you, so you do also. 
 Amen, amen, I say to you: The 
 servant is not greater than his 
 lord ; neither is the apostle 
 greater than he that sent him. 
 If you know these things, you 
 shall be blessed if you do them. 
 I speak not of you all : I know 
 whom I have chosen. But that 
 the scripture may be fulfilled : 
 He that eateth bread with me, 
 shall lift up his heel against me. 
 At present I tell you, before it 
 come to pass : that when it 
 shall come to pass, you may 
 believe that I am he. Amen, 
 amen, I say to you, he that re- 
 ceiveth whomsoever I send, re- 
 ceiveth me ; and he that receiv- 
 eth me, receiveth him that sent 
 me. 
 
 4. (Luke 22.) Again he 
 said to them : With desire I 
 have desired to eat this pasch 
 with you, before I suffer. For 
 I sa}" to you, that from this 
 time I will not eat it, till it be 
 fulfilled in the kingdom of God. 
 And having taken the chalice, 
 he gave thanks, and said : Take, 
 and divide it among you : For 
 I say to you, that I will not 
 drink of the fruit of the vine, 
 till the kingdom of God come. 
 And taking bread, he gave 
 thanks, and brake ; and gave 
 to them, saying: This is my 
 body, wliich is given for 3'ou. 
 Do this for a commemoration 
 of me. 
 
 (I Cor. 11.) And taking the 
 chalice he gave thanks, and 
 gave to them, saying : Drink 
 ye all of this. For this is my 
 
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 blood of the new testament, 
 which shall be shed for many 
 unto remission of sins. There- 
 fore whosoever shall eat this 
 bread, or drink the chalice of 
 the Lord unworthily, shall be 
 guilty of the body and of the 
 blood of the Lord. But let a 
 man prove himself : and so let 
 him eat of that bread, and drink 
 of the chalice. For he that 
 eateth anddrinketh unworthily, 
 eateth and drinketh judgment 
 to himself, not discerning the 
 body of the Lord. But 3^et be- 
 hold, the hand of him that be- 
 trayeth me is with me on the 
 table. And the son of man in- 
 deed goeth, according to that 
 which is determined : but yet, 
 wo to that man by whom he 
 shall be betrayed. 
 
 5. When Jesus had said 
 these things, he was troubled 
 in spirit ; and he testified, and 
 said : Amen, amen, I say to 
 you, one of yow shall betray 
 me. The disciples therefore 
 looked one upon another, doubt- 
 ing of whom he spoke. Now 
 there was leaning on Jesus's 
 bosom one of his disciples, whom 
 Jesus loved. Simon Peter there- 
 fore beckoned to him, and said 
 to him : Who is it of whom he 
 speaketh ? He therefore, lean- 
 ing on the breast of Jesus, saith 
 to him : Lord, who is it ? Jesus 
 answered : He it is to whom 1 
 shall reach bread dipped. And 
 when he had dipped the bread, 
 he gave it to Judas Iscariot, 
 the son of Simon. And after 
 the morsel, satan entered into 
 him. 
 
 (John 13.) And Judas that 
 betrayed him, answering said : 
 Is it I, Rabbi? He saith to 
 him : Thou hast said it. And 
 Jesus said to him : That which 
 thou dost, do quickly. Now no 
 man at the table knew to what 
 purpose he said this unto him. 
 For some thought, because 
 Judas had the purse, that Jesus 
 had said to him: Buy those 
 things which we have need of 
 for the festival day : or that he 
 should give something to the 
 poor. He therefore having re- 
 ceived the morsel, went out im- 
 mediately. And it was night. 
 When he therefore was gone 
 out, Jesus said : Now is the 
 Son of man glorified, and God 
 is glorified in him. If God be 
 glorified in him, God also will 
 glorify him in himself; and im- 
 mediately wull he glorify him. 
 
 6. (Luke 22.) Now there 
 was also a strife amongst them, 
 which of them should seem to 
 be the greater. And he said to 
 them : The kings of the gen- 
 tiles lord it over them ; and 
 they that have power over them, 
 are called beneficent. But you 
 not so: but he that is the 
 greater among you, let him be- 
 come as the 3^ounger; and he 
 that is the leader, as he that 
 serveth. For which is greater, 
 he that sitteth at table, or he 
 that serveth ? Is not he that 
 sitteth at table? But I am in 
 the midst of you, as he that 
 serveth : And you are they 
 who have continued with me in 
 my temptations : And I dis- 
 pose to you, as my Father hath 
 
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 disposed to me, a kingdom ; 
 That you may eat and drink at 
 my table, in my kingdom : and 
 may sit upon thrones, judging 
 the twelve tribes of Israel. 
 
 7. Little children, yet a little 
 while I am with you. You shall 
 seek me ; and as I said to the 
 Jews : Whither I go you can- 
 not come ; so I say to you now. 
 A new commandment I give 
 unto you : That you love one 
 another, as I have loved you, 
 that you also love one another. 
 By this shall all men know that 
 you are my disciples, if you 
 have love one for another. 
 
 8. (John 13.) Simon Peter 
 saith to him : Lord, whither 
 goest thou ? Jesus answered : 
 Whither I go, thou canst not 
 follow me now ; but thou shalt 
 follow hereafter. Peter saith 
 to him : Why cannot I follow 
 thee now ? I will lay down my 
 life for thee. Jesus answered 
 him : Wilt thou lay down thj^ 
 life for me ? 
 
 (Luke 22.) And the Lord 
 said: Simon, Simon, behold 
 
 satan hath desired to have you, 
 that he may sift you as wheat : 
 But I have prayed for thee, 
 that thy faith fail not : and 
 thou, being once converted, con- 
 firm thy brethren. Who said 
 to him : Lord, I am ready to 
 go with thee, both into prison, 
 and to death. And he said : I 
 say to thee, Peter, the cock 
 shall not crow this day, till 
 thou thrice deniest that thou 
 knowest me. And he said to 
 them : When I sent you with- 
 out purse, and scrip, and shoes, 
 did you want any thing? But 
 they said : Nothing. Then said 
 he unto them : But now he that 
 hath a purse, let him take it, 
 and likewise a scrip; and he 
 that hath not, let him sell his 
 coat, and buy a sword. For I 
 say to you, that this that is 
 written must yet be fulfilled in 
 me : And with the wicked was 
 he reckoned. For the things 
 concerning me have an end. 
 But they said : Lord, behold 
 here ai^e two swords. And he 
 said to them, it is enough. 
 
 CHAPTER IL 
 
 EXHORTATION AND PRAYER. 
 
 1. (John 14.) Continuing 
 Jesus said :' Let not your heart 
 be troubled. You believe in 
 God, believe also in me. In my 
 Father's house there are many 
 mansions. If not, I would have 
 
 told you, that I go to prepare a 
 place for 3^ou. And if I shall 
 go, and prepare a place for you, 
 I will come again, and will take 
 you to myself; that where I 
 am, you also may, be. And 
 
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 whither I go you know, and the 
 way you know. Thomas saith 
 to him : Lord, we know not 
 whither thou goest ; and how 
 can we know the way ? Jesus 
 saith to him : I am the way, 
 and the truth, and the life. No 
 man eometh to the Father, but 
 by me. If you had known me, 
 you would without doubt have 
 known my Father also : and 
 from henceforth you sliall know 
 him, and you have seen him. 
 Philip saith to him: Lord, 
 shew us the Father, and it is 
 enough for us. Jesus saith to 
 him : So long a time have I 
 been with you, and have you 
 not known me ? Philip, he tliat 
 seeth me, seeth the Father also. 
 How sayest thou, shew us the 
 Father? Do you not believe, 
 that I am in the Father, and 
 the Father in me ? The words 
 that I speak to you, I speak 
 not of mvself. But the Father 
 who abideth in me, he doth the 
 works. Believe you not that I 
 am in the Father, and the 
 Father in me? Otherwise be- 
 lieve for the very works' sake. 
 Amen, amen, I say to you, he 
 that believeth in me, the works 
 that I do, he also shall do ; and 
 greater than these shall he do. 
 Because I go to the Father : 
 and whatsoever you shall ask 
 the Father in my name, that 
 will I do : that the Father may 
 be glorified in the Son. If you 
 shall ask me any thing in my 
 name, that I will do. 
 
 2. If you love me, keep my 
 commandments. And I will 
 ask the Father, and he shall 
 
 give you another Paraclete, that 
 he may abide with 3^ou for ever. 
 The spirit of truth, whom the 
 world cannot receive, because 
 it seeth him not, nor knoweth 
 him : but you shall know him ; 
 because he shall abide with 3'ou, 
 and shall be in you. I will not 
 leave you orphans, I will come 
 to you. Yet a little while : and 
 the world seeth me no more. 
 But you see me : because I live, 
 and you shall live. In that day 
 you shall know, that I am in 
 my Father, and you in me, and 
 I in you. He that hath my 
 commandments, and keepeth 
 them ; he it is that loveth me. 
 And he that loveth me, shall be 
 loved of m}^ Father : and I will 
 love him, and will manifest my- 
 self to him. Judas saith to 
 him, not the Iscariot : Lord, 
 how is it, that thou wilt mani- 
 fest thyself to us, and not to 
 the w^orld? Jesus answered, 
 and said to him : If any one 
 love me, he will keep my w^ord, 
 and my Father will love him, 
 and we will come to him, and 
 will make our abode with him. 
 He that loveth me not, keepeth 
 not my words. And the word 
 which you have heard, is not 
 mine ; but the Father's who 
 sent me. These things have I 
 spoken to you, abiding with 
 you. But the Paraclete, the 
 'Holy Ghost whom the Father 
 will send in my name, he will 
 teach you all things, and bring 
 all things to your mind, what- 
 soever I shall have said to you. 
 3. Peace I leave with you, 
 my peace I give unto you : not 
 
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 as the world giveth, do I give 
 unto you. Let not your heart 
 be troubled, nor let it be afraid. 
 You have heard that I said to 
 3^ou : I go away, and I come 
 unto you. If you loved me, 
 you would indeed be glad, be- 
 cause I go to the Father : for 
 the Father is greater than I. 
 And now I have told you before 
 it come to pass : that when it 
 shall come to pass, you may 
 believe. I will not now speak 
 many things with you. For 
 the prince of this world comet h, 
 and in me he hath not any 
 thing. But that the world may 
 know, that I love the Father : 
 and as the Father hath given 
 me commandment, so do I : 
 Arise, let us go hence. 
 
 4. (John 15.) I am the true 
 vine ; and my Father is the 
 Jiusbandman. Every branch in 
 me, that beareth not fruit, he 
 will take away : and every one 
 that beareth fruit, he will purge 
 it, that it ma}^ bring forth more 
 fruit. Now you are clean by 
 reason of the word, which I 
 have spoken to you. Abide in 
 me, and I in you. As the 
 branch cannot bear fruit of it- 
 self, unless it abide in the vine, 
 so neither can you, unless 3^ on 
 abide in me. I am the vine ; 
 you the branches : he that 
 abideth in me, and I in him, 
 the same beareth much fruit : 
 for without me you can do 
 nothing. If any one abide not 
 in me, he shall be cast forth as 
 a branch, and shall wither, and 
 they shall gather him up, and 
 cast him into the fire, and he 
 
 burneth. If you abide in me, 
 and my words abide in 3^ou, 
 you shall ask whatever you 
 will, and it shall be done unto 
 you. In this is my Father 
 glorified ; that you bring forth 
 very much fruit, and become 
 my disciples. As the Father 
 hath loved me, I also have loved 
 you. Abide in my love. If you 
 keep my commandments, you 
 shall abide in my love; as I 
 also have kept my Father's 
 commandments, and do abide 
 in his love. These things I 
 have spoken to you, that m}'' 
 joy may be in you, and your 
 joy may be filled. This is my 
 commandment, that you love 
 one another, as I have loved 
 you. Greater love than this no 
 man hath, that a man lay down 
 his life for his friends. You 
 are my friends, if you do the 
 things that I command you. I 
 will not now call j'ou servants : 
 for the servant knoweth not 
 what his Lord doth. But I 
 have called you friends : be- 
 cause all things whatsoever I 
 have heard of my Father, I 
 have made known to you. 
 
 5. You have not chosen me : 
 but I have chosen you ; and have 
 appointed you, that you should 
 go, and should bring forth fruit ; 
 and your fruit should remain : 
 that whatsoever you shall ask 
 of the Father in my name, he 
 may give it you. These things 
 I command you, that 3;0U love 
 one another. 
 
 6. If the world hate you, 
 know \'e, that it hath hated me 
 before you. If j^ou had been 
 
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 of the world, the world would 
 love its own : but because you 
 are not of the world, but I have 
 chosen you out of the world, 
 therefore the world hateth you. 
 Remember my word that I said 
 to 3^ou : The servant is not 
 greater than his master. If 
 they have persecuted me, they 
 will also persecute you : if they 
 have kept my word, they will 
 keep yours also. But all these 
 things they will do to you for 
 my name's sake : because they 
 know not him that sent me. If 
 I had not come, and spoken to 
 them, they would not have sin ; 
 but now they have no excuse 
 for their sin. He that hateth 
 me, hateth my Father also. If 
 I had not done among them the 
 works that no other man hath 
 done, they would not have sin ; 
 but now the}'' have both seen 
 and hated both me and my 
 Father. But that the word 
 may be fulfilled which is written 
 in their law : They hated me 
 without cause, 
 
 7. But when the Paraclete 
 cometh, whom I will send you 
 from the Father, the Spirit of 
 truth, who proceedeth from the 
 Father, he shall give testimony 
 of me. And you shall give tes- 
 timony, because you are with 
 me from the beginning. 
 
 (John 16.) These things have 
 I spoken to you, that you may 
 not be scandalized. They will 
 put yoii out of the synagogues : 
 yea, the hour cometh, that who- 
 soever killeth 3^ou, will think 
 that he doth a service to God. 
 And these things will they do 
 
 to you ; because they have not 
 known the Father, nor me. But 
 these things I have told you, 
 that when the hour shall come, 
 you may remember that I told 
 you of them. But I told you 
 not these things from the be- 
 ginning, because I was with 
 you. And now I go to him 
 that sent me, and none of you 
 asketh me : Whither goest 
 thou ? But because I have 
 spoken these things to you, 
 sorrow hath filled your heart. 
 But I tell you the truth : it is 
 expedient to you that I go : for 
 if I go not, the Paraclete will 
 not come to j'ou ; but if I go, I 
 will send him to you. And 
 when he is come, he will con- 
 vince the world of sin, and of 
 justice, and of judgment. Of 
 sin : because they believed not 
 in me. And of justice: because 
 I go to the Father ; and you 
 shall see me no longer. And 
 of judgment : because the prince 
 of this world is already judged. 
 I have 3^et many things to say 
 to you : but you cannot bear 
 them now. But when he, the 
 Spirit of truth, is come, he will 
 teach you all truth. For he 
 shall not speak of himself; but 
 what things soever he shall 
 hear, he shall speak ; and the 
 things that are to come, he 
 shall shew you. He shall glo- 
 rify me ; because he shall re- 
 ceive of mine, and shall shew it 
 to you. All things whatsoever 
 the Father hath, are mine. 
 Therefore I said, that he shall 
 receive of mine, and shew it to 
 you. 
 
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 8. A little while, and now 
 you shall not see me ; and 
 again a little while, and you 
 shall see me : because I go to 
 the Father. Then some of his 
 disciples said one to another : 
 What is this that he saith to 
 us : A little while, and you 
 shall not see me ; and again a 
 little while, and you shall see 
 me, and, because I go to the 
 Father ? They said therefore : 
 What is this that he saith, A 
 little while? we know not what 
 he speaketh. And Jesus knew 
 that they had a mind to ask 
 him ; and he said to them : Of 
 this do you inquire among 
 yourselves, because I said : A 
 little while, and you shall not 
 see me ; and again a little while, 
 and you shall see me? Amen, 
 amen, I say to you, that you 
 shall lament and weep, but the 
 world shall rejoice ; and you 
 shall be made sorrowful, but 
 your sorrow shall be turned in- 
 to joy. A woman, when she is 
 in labour, hath sorrow, because 
 her hour is come ; but when she 
 hath brought forth the child, 
 she remembereth no more the 
 anguish, for joy that a man is 
 born into the world. So also 
 you now indeed have sorrow ; 
 but I will see you again, and 
 your heart shall rejoice; and 
 your joy no man shall take from 
 you. 
 
 9. And in that day 3^ou 
 shall not ask me any thing. 
 Amen, amen, I say to you : if 
 you ask the Father any thing 
 in my name, he will give it you. 
 Hitherto you have not asked 
 
 any thing in my name. Ask, 
 and you shall receive ; that your 
 joy may be full. These things 
 I have spoken to you in prov- 
 erbs. The hour cometh, when 
 I will no more speak to you in 
 proverbs, but will shew you 
 plainly of the Father. In that 
 day you shall ask in my name ; 
 and I say not to you, that I 
 will ask the Father for you : 
 For the Father himself loveth 
 you, because you have loved 
 me, and have believed that I 
 came out from God. 
 
 10. I came forth from the 
 Father, and am come into the 
 world : again I leave the world, 
 and I go to the Father. His 
 disciples say to him : Behold, 
 now thou speakest plainly, and 
 speakest no proverb. Now we 
 know that thou knowest all 
 things, and thou needest not 
 that au}^ man should ask thee. 
 Bj' this we believe that thou 
 camest forth from God. Jesus 
 answered them : Do 3"ou now 
 believe ? Behold, the hour 
 cometh, and it is now come, 
 that 3^ou shall be scattered 
 every man to his own, and 
 shall leave me alone ; and j-et 
 I am not alone, because the 
 Father is with me. These 
 things I have spoken to you, 
 that in me you may have peace. 
 In the world you shall have 
 distress : but have confidence, I 
 have overcome the world. 
 
 11. (John 17.) These things 
 Jesus spoke, and lifting up his 
 eyes to heaven, he said: 
 Father, the hour is come, 
 glorify thy Son, that thy Son 
 
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 may glorify thee. As thou 
 hast given him power over all 
 flesh, that he may give eternal 
 life to all whom thou hast given 
 him. Now this is eternal life : 
 That they may know thee, the 
 only true God, and Jesus 
 Christ, whom thou hast sent. 
 I have glorified thee on the 
 * earth ; I have finished the 
 work which thou gavest me to 
 do. And now glorify thou me, 
 O Father with thyself, with the 
 glory which I had, before the 
 world was, with thee. I have 
 manifested thy name to the 
 men whom thou hast given me 
 out of the world. Thine they 
 were, and to me thou gavest 
 them ; and they have kept thy 
 word. Now they have known, 
 that all things which thou hast 
 given me, are from thee : Be- 
 cause the words which thou 
 gavest me, I have given to 
 them ; and they have received 
 them, and have known in very 
 deed that I came out from thee, 
 and they have believed that 
 thou didst send me. I pray 
 for them : I pray not for the 
 world, but for them whom thou 
 hast given me : because they 
 are thine : And all my things 
 are thine, and thine are mine; 
 and I am glorified in them. 
 And now I am not in the 
 world, and these are in the 
 world, and I come to thee. 
 Holy Father, keep them in thy 
 name whom thou hast given 
 me; that the}'' may be one, 
 as we also are. While I was 
 with them, I kept them in thy 
 name. Those whom thou gavest 
 
 me have I kept ; and none of 
 them is lost, but the son of per- 
 dition, that the scripture may 
 be fulfilled. And now I come 
 to thee ; and these things I 
 speak in the world, that they 
 may have my joy filled in them- 
 selves. Sanctify them in truth. 
 Thy word is truth. As thou 
 hast sent me into the world, I 
 also have sent them into the 
 world. And for them do I 
 sanctify myself, that they also 
 may be sanctified in truth. 
 And not for them only do I 
 pray, but for them also who 
 through their word shall be- 
 lieve in me; That they all 
 may be one, as thou. Father, in 
 me, and I in thee; that they 
 also may be one in us ; that the 
 world may believe that thou 
 hast sent me. And the glory 
 which thou hast given me, I 
 have given to them ; that they 
 may be one, as we also are one : 
 I in them, and thou in me ; that 
 they may be made perfect in 
 one : and the world may know 
 that thou hast sent me, and 
 hast loved them, as thou hast 
 also loved me. Father, I will 
 that where I am, they also 
 whom thou hast given me may 
 be with me ; that they may see 
 my glory which thou hast given 
 me, because thou hast loved me 
 before the creation of the w^orld. 
 Just Father, the world hath not 
 known thee ; but I have known 
 thee : and these have known 
 that thou hast sent me. And I 
 have made known thy name to 
 them, and will make it known ; 
 that the love wherewith thou 
 
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 hast loved me, may be in them, 
 and I in them. 
 
 12. (Mark 14.) When Jesus 
 had said these things, And 
 when they had said an hymn, 
 they went forth to the mount of 
 olives. And Jesus saith to 
 them : You will all be scan- 
 dalized in my regard this 
 night; for it is written, I will 
 strike the shepherd and the 
 sheep shall he dispersed. But 
 after I shall be risen again, I 
 
 will go before you into Galilee. 
 But Peter saith to him : Al- 
 though all shall be scandalized 
 in thee, yet not I. And Jesus 
 saith to him : Amen I say to 
 thee, to-day, even in this night, 
 before the cock crow twice, 
 thou shalt deny me thrice. But 
 he spoke the more vehemently : 
 Although I should die together 
 with thee, I will not deny thee. 
 And in like manner also said 
 they all. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 GETHSEMANI. 
 
 1. (Mat. 26.) Then Jesus 
 came with them into a country 
 place which is called Gethsem- 
 ani; and he said to his dis- 
 ciples : Sit you here, till I go 
 yonder and pray. And taking 
 with him Peter and the two 
 sons of Zebedee, he began to 
 grow sorrowful and to be sad. 
 Then he saith to them : My 
 soul is sorrowful even unto 
 death : Stay you here, and 
 watch with me. And going a 
 little further, he fell upon his 
 face, praying, and saying : My 
 Father, if it be possible, let this 
 chalice pass from me. Never- 
 theless not as I will, but as thou 
 wilt. And he cometh to his 
 disciples, and findeth them 
 asleep, and he saith to Peter : 
 What ? Could 3^ou not watch 
 one hour with me ? Watch ye, 
 
 and pray that ye enter not into 
 temptation. The spirit indeed 
 is willing, but the flesh weak. 
 Again the second time, he went 
 and praj'ed, saying : My Fa- 
 ther, if this chalice may not pass 
 away, but I must drink it, thy 
 will be done. And he cometh 
 again, and findeth them sleep- 
 ing : for their e3'es were heavy. 
 And leaving them, he went 
 again : and he prajed the third 
 time, saying the self-same word. 
 Then he cometh to his disciples, 
 and saith to them : Sleep j'e 
 now and take your rest ; 
 behold the hour is at hand, and 
 the son of man shall be betrayed 
 into the hands of sinners. Rise, 
 let us go : behold he is at hand 
 that will betray me. 
 
 2. As he yet spoke, behold 
 Judas, one of the twelve came, 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST, 
 
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 and with him a great multitude 
 with swords aud clubs, sent 
 from the chief priests and the 
 ancients of the people. And he 
 that betrayed him, gave them 
 a sign, saying : Whomsoever I 
 shall kiss, that is he, hold him 
 fast. And forthwith coming to 
 Jesus, he said : Hail Rabbi. 
 And he kissed him. And 
 Jesus said to him : Friend, 
 whereto art thou come ? Whom 
 seek ye ? 
 
 (John 18.) They answered 
 him : Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus 
 saith to them : I am he. And 
 Judas also, who betrayed him, 
 stood with them. As soon 
 therefore as he had said to 
 them : I am he ; they went 
 backward, and fell to the 
 ground. Again therefore he 
 asked them: Whom seek ye? 
 And they said : Jesus of Naza- 
 reth. Jesus answered, I have 
 told you that I am he. If 
 therefore you seek me, let these 
 go their wav. 
 
 3. (Luke22.) And they that 
 were about him, seeing what 
 would follow, said to him : 
 Lord shall we strike with the 
 sword ? 
 
 (John 18.) Then Simon 
 Peter, having a sword, drew 
 it, and struck the servant of 
 the high-priest, and cut off his 
 right ear. And the name of 
 the servant was Malchus. 
 Jesus therefore said to Peter ; 
 
 Put up thy sword into the 
 scabbard. The chalice which 
 my Father hath given me, shall 
 I not drink it ? 
 
 (Mat. 26.) Put up again thy 
 sword into its place: For all 
 that take the sword shall 
 perish with the sword. Tliink- 
 est thou that I cannot ask my 
 Father, and he will give me 
 presently more than twelve 
 legions of Angels ? How then 
 shall the scriptures be fulfilled, 
 that so it must be done ? 
 
 (Luke 22.) And when he 
 had touched his ear, he healed 
 him. 
 
 4. And Jesus said to the 
 chief priests, and magistrates of 
 the temple, and the ancients, 
 that were come unto him : Are 
 3'e come out, as it were against 
 a thief, with swords and clubs ? 
 When I was daily with 3^ou in 
 the temple, 3 ou did not stretch 
 forth your hands against me : 
 but this is your hour, and the 
 power of darkness. And ap- 
 prehending him, they led him 
 to the high-priest's house. But 
 Peter followed afar off. Then 
 the disciples all leaving him, 
 fled. 
 
 (Mark 14.) And a certain 
 3'oung man followed him, hav- 
 ing a linen cloth cast about his 
 naked body ; and they laid hold 
 on him. But he, casting off the 
 linen cloth, fled from them 
 naked. 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 CHAPTER IV, 
 
 BEFORE THE TRIBUNAL. 
 
 1. (John 18.) Then the 
 band and the tribune, and the 
 servants of the Jews, took 
 Jesus, and bound him : And 
 they led him away to Annas 
 lirst, for he was father-in-law to 
 Caipbas, who was the high- 
 priest of that year. Now 
 Caiphas was he who had given 
 the counsel to the Jews : That 
 it was expedient that one man 
 should die for the people. 
 
 2. And Simon Peter fol- 
 lowed Jesus, and so did an- 
 other disciple. And that dis- 
 ciple was known to the high- 
 priest, and went in with Jesus 
 into the court of the high- 
 priest. But Peter stood at the 
 door without. The other dis- 
 ciple therefore, who was known 
 to the high-priest, went out, 
 and spoke to the portress, and 
 brought in Peter. 
 
 (Luke 22.) And when they 
 had kindled a fire in the midst 
 of the hall, and were sitting 
 about it, Peter was in the 
 midst of them. Whom when a 
 certain servant-maid had seen 
 sitting at the light, and had 
 earnestly beheld him : she said : 
 This man also was with him. 
 But he denied him, saying: 
 Woman, I know him not. And 
 he went forth before the court ; 
 and the cock crew. 
 
 3. (John 18.) The high- 
 priest therefore asked Jesus of 
 
 his disciples, and of his doc- 
 trine. Jesus answered him : I 
 have spoken openlj'' to the 
 world : I have always taught 
 in the synagogue, and in the 
 temple, whither all the Jews 
 resort ; and in secret I have 
 spoken nothing. Why askest 
 thou me? ask them who have 
 heard what I have spoken unto 
 them : behold they know what 
 things I have said. And when 
 he had said these things, one of 
 the servants standing by^ gave 
 Jesus a blow, saving : Ansvver- 
 est thou the high-priest so? 
 Jesus answered him; If I have 
 spoken evil, give testimony of 
 the evil ; but if well, why 
 strikest thou me ? And Annas 
 sent him bound to Caiphas the 
 high-priest, where the scribes 
 and the ancients were assem- 
 bled. 
 
 4. (Mat. 26.) Now the chief 
 priests and the whole council 
 souo^ht false witness against 
 Jesus, that they might put him 
 to death : And they found not, 
 whereas many false witnesses 
 had come in. And last of all 
 there came two false witnesses : 
 And they said : This man said, 
 I am able to destroy the temple 
 of God, and after three days to 
 rebuild it. And the high-priest 
 rising up, said to him : Answer- 
 est thou nothing to the things 
 w^hich these witness against 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 Ill 
 
 thee? But Jesus held his 
 peace. And the high-priest 
 said to him: I adjure thee by 
 the living God, that thou tell 
 lis if thou be the Christ the Son 
 of God. Jesus saith to him : 
 Thou hast said it. Neverthe- 
 less I say to you, hereafter you 
 shall see the son of man sit- 
 ting on the right hand of the 
 power of God, and coming in 
 the clouds of heaven. Then 
 the high-priest rent his gar- 
 ments, saying : He hath blas- 
 phemed ; what further need 
 have we of witnesses? Be- 
 hold, now you have heard the 
 blasphemy : What think you ? 
 But they answering, said : He 
 is guilty of death. 
 
 5. 13 ut Peter sat without in 
 the court : And as he went out 
 of the gate, another maid saw 
 him, and she saith to them that 
 were there : This man also was 
 with Jesus of Nazareth. And 
 again he denied with an oath : 
 That I know not the man. And 
 after a little while they came 
 that stood by, and said to Peter : 
 Surely thou also art one of 
 them ; for even thy speech doth 
 discover thee. Then he began 
 to curse and to swear that he 
 knew not the man. And im- 
 mediately the cock crew. And 
 Peter remembered the word of 
 Jesus which he had said : Be- 
 fore the cock crow twice thou 
 wilt deny me thrice. And going 
 forth, he wept bitterly. 
 
 6. (Luke 22.) And the men 
 that held Jesus, mocked him, 
 and struck him. And they 
 blindfolded him, and smote his 
 
 face. And they asked him, say- 
 ing : Prophesy, who is it that 
 struck thee ? And blaspheming, 
 many other things they said 
 against him. 
 
 7. And as soon as it was 
 daj^, the ancients of the peo- 
 ple, and the chief priests and 
 scribes, came together ; and 
 the3^ brought him into their 
 council, saying : If thou be the 
 Christ, tell us. And he saith 
 to them : If I shall tell you, you 
 will not believe me. And if I 
 shall also ask 3 ou, 3^ou will not 
 answer me, nor let me go. But 
 hereafter the son of man shall 
 be sitting on the right hand of 
 the power of God. Then said 
 the3' all : Art thou then the Son 
 of God ? Who said : You say, 
 that I am. And they said : 
 What need we any farther tes- 
 timony ? for we ourselves haA^e 
 heard it from his own mouth. 
 Then they led Jesus from 
 Caiphas to the governor's hall. 
 
 8. (Mat. 27.) Then Judas, 
 who betrayed him, seeing that 
 he was condemned, repenting 
 himself, brought back the thirt3^ 
 pieces of silver to the chief 
 priests and ancients, saying : 
 I have sinned in betraying in- 
 nocent blood. But they said : 
 What is that to us ? look thou 
 to it. And casting down the 
 pieces of silver in the temple, 
 he departed : and went and 
 hanged himself with an halter. 
 But the chief priests having 
 taken the pieces of silver, said : 
 It is not lawful to put them in- 
 to the corbona, because it is the 
 price of blood. And after the3' 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 had consulted together, they 
 bought with them the potter's 
 field, to be a burying-place for 
 strangers. For this cause that 
 field was called haceldama, that 
 is, the field of blood, even to 
 this day. Then was fulfilled 
 that which was spoken by Jere- 
 
 mias the prophet, saying : And 
 they took the thirty pieces of 
 silver^ the price of him that was 
 prizedywhom they prized of the 
 children of Israel, And they 
 gave them unto the potter'' s 
 field, as the Lord appointed to 
 me. 
 
 CHAPTER Y. 
 
 SCOURGE AND CROWN. 
 
 1. (John 18. Friday, April 
 T, A. D. 33.) Now it was 
 morning ; and they went not 
 into the hall, that they might 
 not be defiled, but that they 
 might eat the pasch. Pilate 
 therefore went out to them, 
 and said : What accusation 
 bring you against this man? 
 They answered, and said to 
 him : If he were not a male- 
 factor, we would not have de- 
 livered him up to thee. Pilate 
 therefore said to them : Take 
 him you, and judge him ac- 
 cording to your law. The 
 Jews therefore said to him : It 
 is not lawful for us to put 
 any man to death ; That the 
 word of Jesus might be ful- 
 filled, which he said, signifying 
 what death he should die. 
 
 2, Pilate therefore went in- 
 to the hall again, and called 
 Jesus, and said to him : Art 
 thou the king of the Jews? 
 Jesus answered: Sayest thou 
 this thing of thyself, or have 
 
 others told it thee of me ? 
 Pilate answered : Am I a Jew ? 
 Thy own nation, and the chief 
 priests, have delivered thee up 
 to me : what hast thou done ? 
 Jesus answered : My kingdom 
 is not of this world. If my 
 kingdom were of this world, my 
 servants would certainly strive 
 that I should not be delivered 
 to the Jews : but now my king- 
 dom is not from hence. Pilate 
 therefore said to him : Art thou 
 a king then ? Jesus answered : 
 Thou sa3'est that I am a king. 
 For this was I born, and for 
 this came I into the world; 
 that I should give testimony 'to 
 the truth. Every one that is 
 of the truth, heareth my voice. 
 Pilate saith to him: What is 
 truth ? And when he said this, 
 he went out again to the Jews, 
 and saith to them : I find no 
 cause in him. 
 
 (Mat. 27.) And Jesus stood 
 before the governor, and the 
 governor asked him, saying: 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 113 
 
 Art thou the khig of the Jews ? 
 Jesus saith to him : Thou 
 sayest it. And when he was 
 accused by the chief priests 
 and ancients, he answered noth- 
 ing. Then Pilate saith to him : 
 Dost not thou hear how great 
 testimonies they allege against 
 thee ? And he answered him to 
 never a word ; so that the gov- 
 ernor wondered exceed ingh^ 
 
 (Luke 23.) And they began 
 to accuse him, saying : We 
 have found this man pervert- 
 ing our nation, and forbidding 
 to give tribute to Cesar, and 
 saying that he is Christ the 
 king. And Pilate asked him, 
 saying : Art thou the king of 
 the Jews ? But he answering, 
 said : Thou sayest it. And 
 Pilate said to the chief priests 
 and to the multitudes: I find 
 no cause in this man. But 
 they were more earnest, say- 
 ing : He stirreth up the peo- 
 ple, teaching throughout all 
 Judea, beginning from Galilee 
 to this place. But Pilate hear- 
 ing Galilee, asked if the man 
 were of Galilee ? And when he 
 understood that he was of 
 Herod's jurisdiction, he sent 
 hjm away to Herod, who was 
 also himself at Jerusalem, in 
 those days. 
 
 3. Now Herod seeing Jesus, 
 was very glad ; for he was de- 
 sirous of a long time to see 
 him, because he had heard 
 many things of him ; and he 
 hoped to see some sign wrought 
 by him. And he questioned 
 him in many words. But he 
 
 answered 
 
 him nothing. 
 
 And 
 
 the chief priests and the scribes 
 stood b}', earnestly accusing 
 him. And Herod with his army 
 set him at nought, and mocked 
 him, putting on him a white 
 garment, and sent him back to 
 Pilate. And Herod and Pilate 
 were made friends, that same 
 day ; for before they were ene- 
 mies one to another. 
 
 4. (Mat. 27.) Now upon 
 the solemn day the governor 
 was accustomed to release to 
 the people one prisoner, whom 
 they would. And he had then 
 a notorious prisoner, that was 
 called Barabbas. They there- 
 fore being gathered together, 
 Pilate said: Whom will you 
 that I release to 3'ou, Barab- 
 bas, or Jesus that is called 
 Christ? For he knew that for 
 envy they had delivered him. 
 And as he was sitting in the 
 place of judgment, his wife sent 
 to him, saying : Have thou 
 nothing to do with that just 
 man ; for I have suffered many 
 things this day in a dream be- 
 cause of him. But the chief 
 priests and ancients persuaded 
 the people, that they should 
 ask Barabbas, and make Jesus 
 away. And the governor an- 
 swering, said to them : Wheth- 
 er will you of the two to be re- 
 leased unto you ? But they 
 said, Barabbas. Pilate saith to 
 them : What shall I do then 
 with Jesus that is called Christ ? 
 they say all : Let him be cruci- 
 fied. The governor said to 
 them : Why, what evil hath he 
 done? But they cried out the 
 more, saying : Let him be cru- 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 cified. And Pilate seeing that 
 he prevailed nothing, but that 
 rather a tumult was made ; 
 taking water washed his hands 
 before the people, saying : I am 
 innocent of the blood of this 
 just man ; look you to it. And 
 the whole people answering, 
 said : His blood be upon us and 
 upon our children. 
 
 5. Then he released to them 
 Barabbas and took Jesus, and 
 scourged him. Then the sol- 
 diers of the governor taking 
 Jesus into the hall, gathered to- 
 gether unto him the whole 
 band ; And stripping him, 
 they put a scarlet cloak about 
 him. And platting a crown of 
 thorns, they put it upon his 
 head, and a reed in his right 
 hand. And bowing the knee 
 before him, they mocked him, 
 sa3dng : Hail, king of the Jews. 
 And spitting upon him, the}^ 
 took the reed, and struck his 
 head. 
 
 6. (John 19.) Pilate there- 
 fore went forth again, and saith 
 to them : Behold, I bring him 
 forth unto you, that you may 
 know that I find no cause in 
 him. (Jesus therefore came 
 forth, bearing the crown of 
 thorns and the purple gar- 
 ment.) And he saith to them : 
 Behold the Man. When the 
 chief priests therefore, and the 
 servants, had seen him, they 
 cried out, saying : Crucify him, 
 crucify him. Pilate saith to 
 
 him 
 
 you, 
 
 and 
 
 them : Take 
 
 crucify him : for I find no 
 cause in him. The Jews an- 
 swered him : We have a law ; 
 
 and according to the law he 
 ought to die, because he made 
 himself the Son of God. When 
 Pilate therefore had heard this 
 saying, he feared the more. 
 And he entered into the hall 
 again, and he said to Jesus: 
 Whence art thou ? But Jesus 
 gave him no answer. Pilate 
 therefore saith to him : Speak- 
 est thou not to me ? knowest 
 thou not that I have power to 
 crucif}^ thee, and I have power 
 to release thee? Jesus an- 
 swered ; Thou shouldst not 
 have any power against me, 
 unless it were given thee from 
 above. Therefore, he that hath 
 delivered me to thee, hath the 
 greater sin. And from hence- 
 forth Pilate sought to release 
 him. But the Jews cried out, 
 sa3'ing : If thou release this 
 man, thou art not Cesar's 
 friend. For whosoever maketh 
 himself a king,speaketh against 
 Cesar. Now when Pilate had 
 heard these words, he brought 
 Jesus forth, and sat down In 
 the judgment seat, in the place 
 that is called Lithostrotos, and 
 in Hebrew Gabbatha. And it 
 was the parasceve of the pasch 
 about the sixth hour, and Ije 
 saith to the Jews : Behold your 
 king. But they cried out : 
 Away with him, awa}^ with 
 him ; crucify him. Pilate saith 
 to them : shall I crucify your 
 king? The chief priests an- 
 swered : We have no king but 
 Cesar. Then therefore he de- 
 livered him to them to be cru- 
 cified. And they took Jesus 
 and led him forth. 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 115 
 
 CHAPTER YI. 
 
 TAKE UP THY CROSS. 
 
 1. (Luke 23.) Now as they 
 led him away, they laid hold 
 of one Simon of Cyrene, com- 
 ing from the country ; and 
 they laid the cross on him, to 
 carry after Jesus. And there 
 were also two other malefac- 
 tors led with him to be put to 
 death. 
 
 2. And there followed him 
 a great multitude of people, and 
 of women, who bewailed and la- 
 mented him. But Jesus turn- 
 ing to them, said : Daughters 
 
 of Jerusalem, weep not over 
 me ; but weep for yourselves, 
 and for your children. For be- 
 hold, the days shall come, 
 wherein they will say : Blessed 
 are the barren, and the wombs 
 that have not borne, and the 
 paps that have not given suck. 
 Then shall they begin to say to 
 the mountains : Fall upon us ; 
 and to the hills : Cover us. For 
 if in the green wood they do 
 these things, what shall be 
 done in the dry. 
 
 CHAPTER VIL 
 
 IT IS FINISHED. 
 
 1. (Mark 15.) And they 
 bring him into the place called 
 Golgotha, which being inter- 
 preted is, the place of Calvary. 
 And they gave him to drink 
 wine mingled with myrrh ; but 
 he took it not. And with him 
 they crucify two thieves; the 
 one on his right hand, and the 
 other on his left. And the 
 Scripture was fulfilled, which 
 saith : And with the wicked he 
 was reputed, 
 
 2. And crucifying him, they 
 divided his garments, casting 
 lots upon them, what every 
 
 man should take. And Jesus 
 said : Father, forgive them, for 
 they know not what they do. 
 
 3. (John 19.) Now Pilate 
 wrote a title also, and he put 
 it upon the cross. And the 
 writing was: Jesus of Naza- 
 reth, THE King of the Jews. 
 This title therefore many of 
 the Jews did read : because 
 the place where Jesus was 
 crucified was nigh to the city : 
 and it was written in He- 
 brew, in Greek, and in Latin. 
 Then the chief priests of the 
 Jews said to Pilate : Write 
 
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 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 not, The King of the Jews; 
 but that he said, I am the king 
 of the Jews. Pilate answered : 
 What I have written, I have 
 written. 
 
 4. The soldiers therefore, 
 when they had crucified him, 
 took his garments (and they 
 made four parts, to every sol- 
 dier a part,) and also his coat. 
 Now the coat was without seam, 
 woven from the top through- 
 out. They said then one to an- 
 other : Let us not cut it, but 
 let us cast lots for it, whose it 
 shall be ; that the scripture 
 might be fulfilled, saying : 
 They have parted my gar- 
 ments among them^ and upon 
 my vesture they have cast lot. 
 And the soldiers indeed did 
 these things. 
 
 5. (Luke 23.) Now the 
 people stood beholding, and 
 the rulers with them derided 
 him, sayiiig : He saved others ; 
 let him save himself, if he be 
 Christ, the elect of God. And 
 the soldiers also mocked him, 
 coining to him, and offering 
 liim vinegar, And saying : If 
 thou be the king of the Jews, 
 save thyself. 
 
 6. And one of those rob- 
 bers who were hanged, blas- 
 phemed him, sajnng : If thou 
 be Christ, save thyself and us. 
 But the other answering, re- 
 buked him, saying : Neither 
 dost thou fear God, seeing thou 
 art under the same condemna- 
 tion ? And we indeed justly, 
 for we receive the due reward 
 of our deeds ; but this man 
 hath done no evil. And he 
 
 said to Jesus : Lord, remember 
 me when thou shalt come into 
 thy kingdom. And Jesus said 
 to him : Amen I say to thee, 
 this day thou shalt be with me 
 in paradise. 
 
 7. (John 19.) Now there 
 stood by the cross of Jesus, 
 his mother, and his mother's 
 sister, Marj^ of Cleophas, and 
 Marj^ Magdalen. When Jesus 
 therefore had seen his mother 
 and the disciple standing whom 
 he loved, he saith to his mother : 
 Woman, behold thy son. After 
 that, he saith to the disciple : 
 Behold thy mother. And from 
 that hour, the disciple took her 
 to his own. 
 
 8. (Mat. 27.) Now from 
 the sixth hour there was dark- 
 ness over the whole earth, until 
 the ninth hour. And about the 
 ninth hour Jesus cried with a 
 loud voice, saying : Eli, Eli, 
 lamma sabacthani ? that is, My 
 God, my God, why hast thou 
 forsaken me ? And some that 
 stood there and heard, said : This 
 man calleth Elias. Afterwards, 
 Jesus knowing that all things 
 were now accomplished, that the 
 scripture might be fulfilled, 
 said: I thirst. And imme- 
 diately one of them running 
 took a sponge, and filled it with 
 vinegar; and put it on a reed, 
 and gave him to drink. Jesus 
 therefore, when he had taken 
 the vinegar, said : It is con- 
 summated. And the others 
 said : Let be, let us see whether 
 Elias will come to deliver him. 
 And Jesus again crying with 
 a loud voice. Father, into 
 
LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 117 
 
 Thy hands I commend my 
 Spirit, jaelded up the ghost. 
 And behold the veil of the 
 temple was rent in two from 
 the top even to the bottom, 
 and the earth quaked, and the 
 rocks were rent. And the 
 graves w6.re opened : and many 
 bodies of the saints that had 
 slept arose, And coming out 
 of the tombs after his resurrec- 
 tion, came into the holy citj^ 
 and appeared to many. Now 
 the centurion and they that 
 were with him watching Jesus, 
 having seen the earthquake and 
 the things that were done, were 
 sore afraid, saying : Indeed 
 this was the Son of God. And 
 there were there many women 
 afar off, who had followed 
 Jesus from Galilee, ministering 
 unto him: Among whom was 
 Mary Magdalen, and Mary the 
 mother of James and Joseph, 
 and the mother of the sons of 
 Zebedee. 
 
 9. (John 19.) Then the 
 Jews (because it was the pa- 
 rasoeve,) that the bodies might 
 not remain upon the cross on 
 the sabbath day (for that was 
 a great sabbath daj^,) besought 
 Pilate that their leo^s misfht be 
 broken, and that they might 
 be taken away. The soldiers 
 therefore came ; and they broke 
 the legs of the first, and of the 
 other that was crucified with 
 him. But after they were 
 come to Jesns, when they saw 
 that he was already dead, they 
 did not break his legs. But 
 one of the soldiers with a spear 
 opened His Side, and immedi 
 
 ately there came out Blood and 
 Water. — And he that saw it 
 hath given testimony : and his 
 testimony is true. And he 
 knoweth that he saith true ; 
 that you also may believe. — 
 For these things were done, 
 that the Scripture might be ful- 
 filled : You shall not break a 
 bone of Him. — And again an- 
 other Scripture saith: They 
 shall look on Him Whom they 
 pierced. — 
 
 10. Now after these things, 
 Joseph of Arimathea (because 
 he was a disciple of Jesus but 
 secretly for fear of the Jews) 
 besought Pilate that he might 
 take away the body of Jesus. 
 And Pilate gave leave. He 
 came therefore, and took away 
 the body of Jesus. And Nico- 
 demus also came, (he who at 
 the first came to Jesus by 
 night,) bringing a mixture of 
 myrrh and aloes, about an hun- 
 dred pound weight. They took 
 therefore the body of Jesus, and 
 bound it in linen cloths, with 
 the spices, as the manner of the 
 Jews is to bury. Now there 
 was in the place where he was 
 crucified, a garden ; and in the 
 garden a new sepulchre, where- 
 in no man yet had been laid. 
 There, therefore, because of the 
 parasceve of the Jews, they 
 laid Jesus, because the sepul- 
 chre was nigh at hand. And 
 they rolled a stone to the door 
 of "the sepulchre. And Mary 
 Magdalen, and Mary the mo- 
 ther of Joseph, beheld where he 
 was laid. 
 
 (Mat. 27.) And there was 
 
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 there Mary Magdalen, and the 
 other Mary sitting over against 
 the sepulchre. 
 
 11. (Saturday, April 8, A. 
 D. 33.) Now the next day, 
 which followed the day of prep- 
 aration, the chief priests and 
 the Pharisees came together to 
 Pilate, Saying : Sir, we have 
 remembered, that that seducer 
 said, while he was yet alive : 
 After three daj^s I will rise 
 again. Command therefore the 
 sepulchre to be guarded until 
 the third day : lest perhaps his 
 disciples come and steal him 
 
 away, and say to the people : 
 He is risen from the dead ; and 
 the last error shall be worse 
 than the first. Pilate saith to 
 them : You have a guard ; go, 
 guard it as you know. And 
 they departing, made the sepul- 
 chre sure, sealing the stone, and 
 setting guards. 
 
 12. (Mark 16. Sunday, 
 April 9, A. D. 33.) Now when 
 the sabbath was past, Mary 
 Magdalen, and Mary the mother 
 of James and Salome, bought 
 sweet spices that coming, they 
 might anoint Jesus. 
 
PART IV. 
 
 CHRIST'S RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION. 
 
 1. (Mat. 28. Sunday, A. 
 D. 33.) In the end of the sab- 
 bath, when it began to dawn 
 towards the first day of the 
 week, came Mary Magdalen and 
 the other Mary, to see the sep- 
 ulchre. And behold there was 
 a great earthquake. For an 
 angel of the Lord descended 
 from heaven, and coining, rolled 
 back the stone, and sat upon it. 
 And his countenance was as 
 lightning and his raiment as 
 snow. And for fear of him, the 
 guards were struck with terror, 
 and became as dead men. And 
 Mary Magdalen, and Mary the 
 mother of James the less and 
 of Joseph, and Salome : en- 
 tering into the sepulchre, saw a 
 young man sitting on the right 
 side, clothed with a white robe : 
 and they were astonished. Who 
 saith to them : be not affrighted ; 
 you seek tlesus of Nazareth, who 
 was crucified ; he is risen, he is 
 not here, behold the place where 
 they laid him. But go, tell his 
 disciples and Peter that he 
 goeth before you into Galilee ; 
 there 3^ou shall see him, as he 
 told you. But they going out, 
 fled from the sepulchre. For a 
 
 trembling and fear had seized 
 them: and they said nothing 
 to any man ; for they were 
 afraid. 
 
 2. (John 20.) Mary Mag- 
 dalen ran, therefore, and cometh 
 to Simon Peter, and to the 
 other disciple whom Jesus loved, 
 and saith to them : They have 
 taken away the Lord out of the 
 sepulchre, and we know not 
 where they have laid him. Peter 
 therefore went out, and that 
 other disciple, and they came 
 to the sepulchre. And they 
 both ran together, and that 
 other disciple did outrun Peter, 
 and came first to the sepulchre. 
 And when he stooped down, he 
 saw the linen cloths lying ; but 
 3^et he went not in. Then 
 cometh Simon Peter, following 
 him, and went into the sepul- 
 chre, and saw the linen cloths 
 lying, And the napkin that 
 had been about his head, not 
 lying with the linen cloths, but 
 apart, wrapt up into one place. 
 Then that other disciple also 
 went in, who came first to the 
 sepulchre : and he saw, and be- 
 lieved. For as jet they knew 
 not the scripture, that he must 
 
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 rise again from the dead. The 
 disciples therefore departed 
 again to their liome. 
 
 3. But Mary stood at the 
 sepulchre without, weeping. 
 Now as she was weeping, she 
 stooped down, and looked into 
 the sepulchre, And she saw 
 two angels in white, sitting, 
 one at the head, and one at the 
 feet, where the body of Jesus 
 had been laid. They say to her : 
 Woman, why weepest thou? 
 She saith to them : Because 
 they have taken away my 
 Lord ; and I know not where 
 they have laid him. When she 
 had thus said, she turned her- 
 self back, and saw Jesus stand- 
 ing ; and she knew not that it 
 was Jesus. Jesus saith to her : 
 Woman, why weepest thou ? 
 whom seekest thou ? She, 
 thinking that it was the gar- 
 dener, saith to him : Sir, if 
 thou hast taken him hence, tell 
 me where thou hast laid him, 
 and I will take him away. 
 Jesus saith to her: Mary. She 
 turning, saith to him : Rabboni, 
 (which is to say, Master.) 
 Jesus saith to her: Do not 
 touch me, for I am not yet as- 
 cended to my Father. But go 
 to my brethren, and say to 
 them : I ascend to my Father 
 and to 3'our Father, to vay God 
 and your God. Mary Mag- 
 dalen Cometh, and telleth the 
 disciples : I have seen the 
 Lord, and these things he said 
 to me. And they hearing that 
 he was alive and had been seen 
 by her, did not believe. 
 
 4. (Mat. 28.) Now the other 
 
 women went out quickly from 
 the sepulchre with fear and 
 great joy, running to tell his 
 disciples. And behold Jesus 
 met them, saying: All hail. 
 But they came up and took 
 hold of his feet, and adored him. 
 Then Jesus said to them : Fear 
 not. Go, tell my brethren that 
 they go into Galilee, there they 
 shall see me. 
 
 (Luke 24.) And going back 
 from the sepulchre, they told 
 all these things to the eleven, 
 and to all the rest. And it w^as 
 Marj^ Magdalen, and Joanna, 
 and Mary of James, and the 
 other women that were with 
 tliem, who told these things to 
 the apostles. And these words 
 seemed to them as idle tales ; 
 and they did not believe them. 
 
 5. ('Mat. 28.) Who when 
 they w^ere departed, behold 
 some of the guards came into 
 the cit}^, and told the chief 
 priests all things that had been 
 done. And they being assem- 
 bled together with the ancients, 
 taking counsel, gave a great 
 sum of money to the soldiers, 
 Saying : Sa}^ you. His disciples 
 came by night, and stole him 
 away w^hen we were asleep. 
 And if the governor shall hear 
 of this, we will persuade him 
 and secure 3^ou. So they tak- 
 ing the mone}^, did as they were 
 taught : and this word was 
 spread abroad" among the Jews 
 even unto this day. 
 
 6. (Luke 24.) And behold, 
 two disciples went, the same 
 day, to a town which was sixty 
 furlongs from Jerusalem, named 
 
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 Emmaus. And tliey talked to- 
 gether of all these things which 
 had happened. And it came to 
 pass, that while they talked 
 and reasoned with themselves, 
 Jesus himself also drawing 
 near, went with them. But 
 their eyes were held, that they 
 should not know him. And he 
 said to them : What are these 
 discourses that you hold one 
 with another as you walk, and 
 are sad ? And the one of them, 
 whose name was Cleophas, an- 
 swering, said to him : Art thou 
 only a stranger in Jerusalem, 
 and hast not known the things 
 that have been done there in 
 these days ? To whom he said : 
 What things ? And they said : 
 Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, 
 who was a prophet, mighty in 
 work and word before God and 
 all the people; And how our 
 chief priests and princes de- 
 livered him to be condemned 
 to death, and crucified him. 
 But we hoped, that it was he 
 that should have redeemed 
 Israel : and now besides all 
 this, to-day is the third day 
 since these things were done. 
 Yea and certain women also of 
 our company affrighted us, who 
 before it was light, were at the 
 sepulchre. And not finding his 
 body, came, saying, that they 
 had also seen a vision of angels, 
 who say that he is alive. And 
 some of our people went to the 
 sepulchre, and found it so as 
 the women had said, but him 
 they found not. Then he said 
 to them : foolish, and slow 
 of heart to believe in all things 
 
 ! which the prophets have spoken. 
 Ought not Christ to have suf- 
 fered these things, and so to 
 enter into his glory ? And be- 
 ginning at Moses and all the 
 prophets, he expounded to them 
 in all the scriptures, the things 
 that were concerning him. And 
 they drew nigh to the town, 
 whither they were going : and 
 he made as though he would 
 go farther. But they con- 
 strained him ; saying : Stay 
 with us, because it is towards 
 evening, and the day is now far 
 spent. And he went in with 
 them. And it came to pass, 
 whilst he was at table with 
 them, he took bread, and 
 blessed, and brake, and gave 
 to them. And their eyes were 
 opened, and they knew him : 
 and he vanished out of their 
 sight. And they said one to 
 the other: Was not our heart 
 burning within us, whilst. he 
 spoke in the way, and opened 
 to us the scriptures? And ris- 
 ing up, the same hour, they 
 went back to Jerusalem : and 
 they found the eleven gathered 
 together, and those that were 
 with them. Saying: The Lord 
 is risen indeed, and hath ap- 
 peared to Simon. And they 
 told what things were done iii 
 the wa3^ ; and how thej^ knew 
 him in the breaking of bread, 
 neither did they believe them. 
 
 7. Now whilst they were 
 speaking these things, Jesus 
 stood in the midst of them, and 
 saith to them : Peace he to 
 3' on ; it is I, fear not. But 
 they being troubled and fright- 
 
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 ed, supposed that they saw a 
 spirit. And he said to them : 
 Wliy are you troubled, and wh}^ 
 do thoughts arise in your 
 hearts ? See my hands and 
 feet, that it is I mj^self ; handle, 
 and see : for a spirit hath not 
 flesh and bones, as you see me 
 to have. And when he had 
 said this, he shewed them his 
 hands and feet. But while they 
 yet believed not, and wondered 
 for joy, he said : Have you 
 here an}^ thing to eat? And 
 they offered him a piece of a 
 broiled fish, and a honeycomb. 
 And when he had eaten before 
 them, taking the remains, he 
 gave to them. 
 
 8. (John 20.) The disciples 
 therefore were glad, when they 
 saw the Lord. He said there- 
 fore to them again : Peace be 
 to you. As the Father hath 
 sent me, I also send you. 
 When he had said this, he 
 breathed on them : and he said 
 to them : Receive ye the Holy 
 Ghost. Whose sins you shall 
 forgive, they are forgiven them ; 
 and whose sins 3^ou shall re- 
 tain, they are retained. 
 
 9. Now Thomas, one of the 
 twelve, who is called Didymus, 
 was not with them when Jesus 
 came. The other disciples 
 therefore said to him ; We have 
 seen the Lord. But he said to 
 them : Except I shall see in his 
 hands the print of the nails, 
 and put my finger into the 
 place of the nails, and put my 
 hand into his side, I will not 
 believe. And after eight days 
 again his disciples were within. 
 
 and Thomas with them. Jesus 
 Cometh, the doors being shut, 
 and stood in the midst, and 
 said : Peace be to you. Then 
 he saith to Thomas ; Put in thy 
 finger hither, and see my 
 hands ; and bring hither thy 
 hand, and put it into my side; 
 and be not faithless, but be- 
 lieving. Thomas answered, 
 and said to him : My Lord, 
 and my God. Jesus saith to 
 him ; Because thou hast seen 
 me, Thomas, thou hast believed : 
 blessed are they that have not 
 seen, and have believed. 
 
 10. (John 2L) After this, 
 Jesus shewed himself again to 
 the disciples at the sea of Ti- 
 berias. And he shewed him- 
 self after this manner. There 
 were together Simon Peter, and 
 Thomas, who is called Didy- 
 mus, and Nathanael, who was 
 of Cana of Galilee, and the sons 
 of Zebedee, and two others of 
 his disciples. Simon Peter saith 
 to them : I go a fishing. They 
 say to him : We also come with 
 thee. And they went forth, 
 and entered into the ship : and 
 that night they caught nothing. 
 But when the morning was 
 come, Jesus stood on the shore : 
 yet the disciples knew not that 
 it was Jesus. Jesus therefore 
 said to them: Ciiildren, have 
 .you any meat ? They answered 
 him : No. He saith to them : 
 Cast the net on the right side 
 of the ship, and you shall find. 
 They cast therefore; and now 
 they were not able to draw it, 
 for the multitude of fishes. 
 That disciple therefore whom 
 
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 Jesus loved, said to Peter : It 
 is the Lord. Simon Peter, 
 when he heard that it was the 
 Lord, girt his coat about him 
 (for he was naked,) and cast 
 himself into the sea. But the 
 other disciples came in the ship 
 (for they were not far from the 
 land, but as it were two hun- 
 dred cubits,) dragging the net 
 with fishes. As soon then as 
 they came to land, they saw 
 hot coals lying, and a fish laid 
 thereon, and bread. Jesus saith 
 to them: Brins^ hither of the 
 fishes which you have now 
 caught. Simon Peter went up, 
 and drew the net to land, full 
 of great fishes, one hundred 
 and fifty-three. And although 
 there w^ere so many, the net 
 was not broken. Jesus saith 
 to them : Come, and dine. And 
 none of them who were at meat, 
 durst ask him : Who art thou ? 
 knowing that it was the Lord. 
 And Jesus cometh and taketh 
 bread, and giveth them, and 
 fish in like manner. This is 
 now the third time that Jesus 
 was manifested to his disciples, 
 after he was risen from the 
 dead. 
 
 11. When therefore they had 
 dined, Jesus saith to Simon 
 Peter: Simon, son of John, 
 lovest thou me more than these ? 
 He saith to him : Yea, Lord, 
 thou knowest that I love thee. 
 He saith to him : Feed my 
 lambs. He saith to him again :' 
 Simon, son of John, lovest thou 
 me ? He saith to him : Yea, 
 Lord, thou knowest that I love 
 thee. He saith to him : Feed 
 
 my lambs. He said to him the 
 third time : Simon, son of John, 
 lovest thou me ? Peter was 
 grieved, because he had said to 
 him the third time : Lovest 
 thou me ? And he said to him : 
 Lord, thou knowest all things : 
 thou knowest that I love thee. 
 He said to him : Feed my sheep. 
 
 12. Amen, amen, 1 say to 
 thee, when thou wast younger, 
 thou didst gird thyself, and 
 didst walk where thou wouldst. 
 But when thou shalt be old, 
 thou shalt stretch forth thy 
 hands, and another shall gird 
 thee, and lead thee whither 
 thou wouldst not. And this he 
 said, signifying b}' what death 
 he should glorify God. And 
 when he had said this, he saith 
 to liim : Follow me. 
 
 13. Peter turning about, 
 saw that disciple whom Jesus 
 loved following, who also leaned 
 on his breast at supper, and 
 said : Lord, who is he that 
 shall betray thee ? Him there- 
 fore w^hen Peter had seen, he 
 saith to Jesus : Lord, and what 
 shall this man do ? Jesus saith 
 to him : So I will have him to 
 remain till I come, what is it to 
 thee ? follow thou me. This 
 saying therefore went abroad 
 among the brethren, that that 
 disciple should not die. And 
 Jesus did not say to him : He 
 should not die ; but. So I will 
 have him to remain till I come, 
 what is it to thee ? This is that 
 disciple who giveth testimony 
 of these things, and hath writ- 
 ten these things ; and we know 
 that his testimony is true. 
 
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 14. (Mat. 28.) Now the 
 eleven disciples went into Gali- 
 lee, unto the mountain where 
 Jesus had appointed them. 
 And seeing him they adored : 
 but some doubted. 
 
 15. (1 Cor. 15.) Tlien was 
 he seen by more than five hun- 
 dred brethren at once: of whom 
 many remain until this present, 
 and some are fallen asleep. 
 
 16. After that, he was seen 
 by James, then by all the 
 apostles. To whom also he 
 shewed himself alive after his 
 passion, by many proofs, for 
 forty days appearing to them, 
 and speaking of the kingdom 
 of God. 
 
 17. (Mark 16.) At length 
 he appeared to the eleven as 
 they were at table : and he up- 
 braided them with their incre- 
 dulity and hardness of heart, be- 
 cause they did not believe them 
 who had seen him after he was 
 risen again. And he said to 
 them : Go ye into the whole 
 world, and preach the gospel to 
 every creature. He that be- 
 lieveth and is baptized, shall be 
 saved : but he that believeth not 
 shall be condemned. And these 
 signs shall follow them that be- 
 lieve : In my name they shall 
 cast out devils : they shall speak 
 with new tongues. They shall 
 take up serpents; and if they 
 shall drink any deadly thing, it 
 shall not hurt them : they shall 
 lay their hands upon the sick, 
 and they shall recover. 
 
 (Luke 24.) These are the 
 words which I spoke to you, 
 while I was yet with you, that 
 
 all things must needs be ful- 
 filled, which are written in the 
 law of Moses, and in the proph- 
 ets, and in the psalms, concern- 
 ing me. Then he opened their 
 understanding, that they might 
 understand the scriptures. And 
 he said to them : Thus it is 
 written, and thus it behoved 
 Christ to suffer, and to rise 
 again from the dead, the third 
 day : And that penance and 
 remission of sins should be 
 preached in his name, unto all 
 nations, beginning at Jerusa- 
 lem. And 3'OU are witnesses 
 of these things. And I send 
 the promise of my Father upon 
 you : but stay you in the city, 
 till you be endued with power 
 from on high. For John indeed 
 baptized with water, but you 
 shall be baptized with the Holy 
 Ghost, not many daj's hence. 
 
 18. Now he led them out as 
 far as Bethania : and lifting up 
 his hands, he blessed them. 
 
 (Acts 1.) They therefore 
 who were come together, asked 
 him, saying: Lord, wilt thou 
 at this time restore again the 
 kingdom to Israel? But he 
 said to them : It is not for you 
 to know the times or moments, 
 which the Father hath put in 
 his own power : But you shall 
 receive the power of the Holy 
 Ghost coming upon you, and 
 you shall be witnesses unto me 
 in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, 
 and Samaria, and even to the 
 uttermost part of the earth. 
 And when he had said these 
 things, while they looked on, 
 he was raised up : and a cloud 
 
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 received him out of their 
 sight. 
 
 19. Now while they were 
 beholding him going up to 
 heaven, behold two men stood 
 by them in white garments. 
 Who also said : Ye men of 
 Galilee, why stand you looking 
 up to heaven ? This Jesus who 
 is taicen up from you into 
 heaven, shall so come, as you 
 have seen him going into 
 heaven. 
 
 20. Then they returned to 
 Jerusalem from the mount that 
 is called Olivet, which is nigh 
 Jerusalem, within a sabbath 
 day's journey. And when they 
 were come in, they went up into 
 an upper room, where abode 
 Peter and John, James and 
 Andrew, Philip and Thomas, 
 Bartholomew and Matthew, 
 James of Alpheus, and Simon 
 Zelotes, and Jude the brother 
 of James. All these were per- 
 severing with one mind in 
 prayer with the women, and 
 Mary the mother of Jesus, and 
 with his brethren. 
 
 21. (A. D. 33.) In those 
 days Peter rising up in the 
 midst of the brethren said : 
 (now the number of persons to- 
 gether was about an hundred 
 and twenty :) Men, brethren, 
 the scripture must needs be 
 fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost 
 spoke before by the mouth of 
 David concerning Judas, who 
 was the leader of them that ap- 
 prehended Jesus : Who was 
 numbered with us, and had ob- 
 tained part of this ministry. 
 And he indeed hath possessed a 
 
 field of the reward of iniquity, 
 and being hanged, burst asunder 
 in the midst : and all liis bow- 
 els gushed out. And it became 
 known to all the inhabitants of 
 Jerusalem : so that the same 
 field was called in their tongue, 
 Haceldama, that is to say, The 
 field of blood. For it is writ- 
 ten in the book of psalms : Let 
 their habitation become desolate, 
 and let there be none to dwell 
 therein. And his bishoprick let 
 another take, 
 
 22. Wherefore of these men 
 who have companied with us all 
 the time that the Lord Jesus 
 came in and went out among 
 us, beginning from the bap- 
 tism of John, until the day 
 wherein he was taken up from 
 us, one of these must be made 
 a witness with us of his resur- 
 rection. And they appointed 
 two, Joseph, called Barsabas, 
 who was surnamed Justus, and 
 Matthias. And praying, they 
 said : Thou, Lord, who know- 
 est the hearts of all men, shew 
 whether of these two thou hast 
 chosen, to take the place of 
 this ministry and apostleship, 
 from which Judas hath by 
 transgression fallen, that he 
 might go to his own place. And 
 they gave them lots, and the 
 lot fell upon Matthias, and he 
 was numbered with the eleven 
 apostles. 
 
 23. (Acts 2.) Now when 
 the days of the pentecost were 
 accomplished, they were all to- 
 gether in one place : And sud- 
 denly there came a sound from 
 heaven, as of a mighty wind 
 
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 coming, and it filled the whole 
 house where they were sitting. 
 And there appeared to them 
 parted tongues as it were of 
 lire, and it sat upon every one 
 of them : And they were all 
 filled with the Holy Ghost, and 
 they began to speak with divers 
 tongues, according as the Holy 
 Ghost gave them to speak. 
 Now there were dwelling at Je- 
 rusalem, Jews, devout men, out 
 of every nation under heaven. 
 And when this was noised 
 abroad, the multitude came to- 
 gether, and were confounded in 
 mind, because that every man 
 heard them speak in his own 
 tongue. And they were all 
 amazed, and wondered, saying : 
 Behold, are not all these, that 
 speak, Galileans ? And how 
 have we heard, every man our 
 own tongue wherein we were 
 born ? Parthians, and Medes, 
 and Elamites, and inhabitants 
 of Mesopotamia, Judea, and 
 Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 
 Phrygia, and Pamphilia, Egypt, 
 and the parts of Lybia about 
 Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, 
 Jews also, and proselytes, 
 Cretes, and Arabians : we have 
 heard them speak in our own 
 tongues the wonderful works of 
 God. And they were all as- 
 tonished, and wondered, saying 
 one to another : What mean- 
 eth this ? But others mocking, 
 said : These men are full of 
 new wine. 
 
 24. But Peter standing up 
 with the eleven, lifted up his 
 voice, and spoke to them: Ye 
 men of Judea, and all you that 
 
 dwell in Jerusalem, be this 
 known to you, and with your 
 ears receive my words. For 
 these are not drunk, as you 
 suppose, seeing it is but the 
 third hour of the day ; But 
 this is that which was spoken 
 of b}^ the prophet Joel ; And 
 it shall come to pass^ in the last 
 days (sailh the Lord,) I will 
 pour out of my Spirit upon all 
 flesh : and your sons and your 
 daughters shall prophesy, and 
 your young men shall see 
 visions, and your old men shall 
 dream dreams. And upon my 
 servants indeed, and upon my 
 handmaids will I pour out in 
 those days of my spirit, and 
 they shall prophesy. And I 
 will shew wonders in the heaven 
 above, and signs on the earth 
 beneath: blood and fire, and 
 vapour of smoke. The sun 
 shall be turned into darkness, 
 and the moon into blood, before 
 the great and manifest day of 
 the Lord come. And it shall 
 come to pass, that whosoever 
 shall call upon the name of the 
 Lord, shall be saved. 
 
 25. Ye men of Israel, hear 
 these words : Jesus of Nazar- 
 eth, a man approved of God 
 among you, by miracles, and 
 wonders, and signs, which God 
 did by him, in the midst of you, 
 as you also know : This same 
 being delivered up, by the de- 
 terminate counsel and fore- 
 knowledge of God, you by the 
 hands of wicked men have 
 crucified and slain. Whom God 
 had raised up, having loosed 
 the sorrows of hell, as it was 
 
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 impossible that be should be 
 holden by it. For David saith 
 concerning him : I foresaw the 
 Lord be/ore my face: because 
 he is at my right hand that I 
 may not be moved. For this 
 my heart hath been glad, and 
 my tongue hath rejoiced : more- 
 over my flesh also shall rest in 
 hope. Because thou wilt not 
 leave my soul in hell, nor suffer 
 thy Holy one to see corruption. 
 Thou hast made known to me 
 the ways of life: Thou shall 
 make me full of joy with thy 
 countenance. Ye men, breth- 
 ren, let me freely speak to you 
 of the patriarch David ; that he 
 died, and was buried; and his 
 sepulchre is with us to this 
 present day. Whereas there- 
 fore he was a prophet, and 
 knew that God hath sworn to 
 him with an oath, that of the 
 fruit of his loins one should sit 
 upon his throne, Forseeing this 
 he spoke of the resurrection of 
 Christ. For neither was he 
 left in hell, neither did his flesh 
 see corruption. This Jesus 
 hath God raised again, whereof 
 all we are witnesses. Being 
 exalted therefore by the right 
 hand of God, and having re- 
 ceived of the Father the prom- 
 ise of the Holy Ghost, he hath 
 poured forth this which j^ou 
 see and hear. For David as- 
 cended not into heaven ; but he 
 himself said : The Lord said 
 to my Lord, sit thou on my 
 right hand, Until I make thy 
 enemies thy footstool. There- 
 fore let all the house of Israel 
 know most certainly, that God 
 
 hath made both Lord and 
 Christ, this same Jesus, whom 
 you have crucified. 
 
 26. Now when they had 
 heard these things, they had 
 compunction in their heart, and 
 said to Peter, and to the rest of 
 the apostles: What shall we 
 do, men and brethren? But 
 Peter said to them : Do pen- 
 ance, and be baptized every one 
 of you in the name of Jesus 
 Christ, for the remission of 
 your sins: and you shall re- 
 ceive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 
 For the promise is to you, and 
 to your children, and to all 
 that are far off, whomsoever the 
 Lord our God shall call. And 
 with very many other words 
 did he testify and exhort them, 
 saying : Save j^ourselves from 
 this perverse generation. They 
 therefore that received his word, 
 were baptized ; and there were 
 added in that day about three 
 thousand souls. And they were 
 persevering in the doctrine of 
 the apostles, and in the com- 
 munication of the breaking of 
 bread, and in prayers. And 
 fear came upon every soul : 
 many wonders also and signs 
 were done by the apostles in 
 Jerusalem, and there was great 
 fear in all. 
 
 27. Now all they that be- 
 lieved, were together and had 
 all things common. Their pos- 
 sessions and goods they sold, 
 and divided them to all, accord- 
 ing as every one had need. And 
 continuing daily with one ac- 
 cord in the temple, and break- 
 ing bread from house to house, 
 
129 
 
 LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 they took their meat with 
 gladness and simplicity of 
 heart ; praising God, and hav- 
 ing favour with all the people. 
 And the Lord increased daily 
 tosjether such as should be 
 saved. 
 
 28. (Jolm 20. A. D. 33.) 
 Many other signs also did Jesus 
 in the sight of his disciples, 
 which are not written in this 
 book. But these are written, 
 that you may believe that Jesus 
 is the Christ, the Son of God : 
 
 and that believing, you may 
 have life in his name. 
 
 (John 21.) But there are 
 also many other things wJiich 
 Jesus did ; which, if they were 
 written every one, the world it- 
 self, I think, would not be able 
 to contain the books that should 
 be written. 
 
 (Mark 16.) But the apos- 
 tles going forth preached every 
 where : the Lord working with- 
 al, and conGrming the word with 
 signs that followed. 
 
 (Maccab 15.) I will here make an end of my narration. 
 Which if I have done well, and as it becometh the history, it is 
 what I desired : but if not so perfectly, it must be pardoned me. 
 
 (2 Cor. 13.) For the rest, brethren, rejoice, be perfect, take 
 exhortation, be of one mind, have peace; and the God of peace 
 and of love shall be with 3^ou. The grace of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, and the charity of God, and the communication of the 
 Holy Ghost be with you all. Amen. 
 
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