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| 1 Γίνεσθε |
1 As God’s favoured children, you must be like him. 2 Order your lives in charity, upon the model of that charity which Christ shewed to us, when he gave himself up on our behalf, a sacrifice breathing out fragrance as he offered it to God. 3 As for debauchery, and impurity of every kind, and covetousness, there must be no whisper of it among you; it would ill become saints; 4 no indecent behaviour, no ribaldry or smartness in talk; that is not your business, your business is to give thanks to God. 5 This you must know well enough, that nobody can claim a share in Christ’s kingdom, God’s kingdom, if he is debauched, or impure, or has that love of money which makes a man an idolater. 6 Do not allow anyone to cheat you with empty promises; these are the very things which bring down God’s anger on the unbelievers; 7 you do ill to throw in your lot with them. 8 Once you were all darkness; now, in the Lord, you are all daylight. You must live as men native to the light; 9 where the light has its effect, all is goodness, and holiness, and truth; 10 your lives must be the manifestation of God’s will.[1] 11 As for the thankless deeds men do in the dark, you must not take any part in them; rather, your conduct must be a rebuke to them; 12 their secret actions are too shameful even to bear speaking of. 13 It is the light that rebukes such things and shews them up for what they are; only light shews up.[2] 14 That is the meaning of the words, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.[3] | 1 Estote ergo imitatores Dei, sicut filii carissimi, 2 et ambulate in dilectione, sicut et Christus dilexit nos, et tradidit semetipsum pro nobis, oblationem et hostiam Deo in odorem suavitatis. 3 Fornicatio autem, et omnis immunditia, aut avaritia, nec nominetur in vobis, sicut decet sanctos: 4 aut turpitudo, aut stultiloquium, aut scurrilitas, quæ ad rem non pertinet: sed magis gratiarum actio. 5 Hoc enim scitote intelligentes: quod omnis fornicator, aut immundus, aut avarus, quod est idolorum servitus, non habet hæreditatem in regno Christi et Dei. 6 Nemo vos seducat inanibus verbis: propter hæc enim venit ira Dei in filios diffidentiæ. 7 Nolite ergo effici participes eorum. 8 Eratis enim aliquando tenebræ: nunc autem lux in Domino. Ut filii lucis ambulate: 9 fructus enim lucis est in omni bonitate, et justitia, et veritate: 10 probantes quid sit beneplacitum Deo: 11 et nolite communicare operibus infructuosis tenebrarum, magis autem redarguite. 12 Quæ enim in occulto fiunt ab ipsis, turpe est et dicere. 13 Omnia autem, quæ arguuntur, a lumine manifestantur: omne enim, quod manifestatur, lumen est. 14 Propter quod dicit: Surge qui dormis, et exsurge a mortuis, et illuminabit te Christus. |
| 15 Βλέπετε |
15 See then, brethren, how carefully you have to tread, not as fools, 16 but as wise men do, hoarding the opportunity that is given you, in evil times like these. 17 No, you cannot afford to be reckless; you must grasp what the Lord’s will is for you. 18 Do not besot yourselves with wine; that leads to ruin. Let your contentment be in the Holy Spirit; 19 your tongues unloosed in psalms and hymns and spiritual music, as you sing and give praise to the Lord in your hearts. 20 Give thanks continually to God, who is our Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; 21 and, as you stand in awe of Christ, submit to each other’s rights. 22 Wives must obey their husbands as they would obey the Lord. 23 The man is the head to which the woman’s body is united, just as Christ is the head of the Church, he, the Saviour on whom the safety of his body depends; 24 and women must owe obedience at all points to their husbands, as the Church does to Christ. 25 You who are husbands must shew love to your wives, as Christ shewed love to the Church when he gave himself up on its behalf. 26 He would hallow it, purify it by bathing it in the water to which his word gave life; 27 he would summon it into his own presence, the Church in all its beauty, no stain, no wrinkle, no such disfigurement; it was to be holy, it was to be spotless. 28 And that is how husband ought to love wife, as if she were his own body; in loving his wife, a man is but loving himself. 29 It is unheard of, that a man should bear ill-will to his own flesh and blood; no, he keeps it fed and warmed; and so it is with Christ and his Church; 30 we are limbs of his body; flesh and bone, we belong to him.[4] 31 That is why a man will leave his father and mother and will cling to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. 32 Yes, those words are a high mystery, and I am applying them here to Christ and his Church.[5] 33 Meanwhile, each of you is to love his wife as he would love himself, and the wife is to pay reverence to her husband. | 15 Videte itaque, fratres, quomodo caute ambuletis: non quasi insipientes, 16 sed ut sapientes: redimentes tempus, quoniam dies mali sunt. 17 Propterea nolite fieri imprudentes, sed intelligentes quæ sit voluntas Dei. 18 Et nolite inebriari vino, in quo est luxuria, sed implemini Spiritu Sancto, 19 loquentes vobismetipsis in psalmis, et hymnis, et canticis spiritualibus, cantantes et psallentes in cordibus vestris Domino, 20 gratias agentes semper pro omnibus in nomine Domini nostri Jesu Christi Deo et Patri, 21 subjecti invicem in timore Christi. 22 Mulieres viris suis subditæ sint, sicut Domino: 23 quoniam vir caput est mulieris, sicut Christus caput est Ecclesiæ: ipse, salvator corporis ejus. 24 Sed sicut Ecclesia subjecta est Christo, ita et mulieres viris suis in omnibus. 25 Viri, diligite uxores vestras, sicut et Christus dilexit Ecclesiam, et seipsum tradidit pro ea, 26 ut illam sanctificaret, mundans lavacro aquæ in verbo vitæ, 27 ut exhiberet ipse sibi gloriosam Ecclesiam, non habentem maculam, aut rugam, aut aliquid hujusmodi, sed ut sit sancta et immaculata. 28 Ita et viri debent diligere uxores suas ut corpora sua. Qui suam uxorem diligit, seipsum diligit. 29 Nemo enim umquam carnem suam odio habuit: sed nutrit et fovet eam, sicut et Christus Ecclesiam: 30 quia membra sumus corporis ejus, de carne ejus et de ossibus ejus. 31 Propter hoc relinquet homo patrem et matrem suam, et adhærebit uxori suæ, et erunt duo in carne una. 32 Sacramentum hoc magnum est, ego autem dico in Christo et in Ecclesia. 33 Verumtamen et vos singuli, unusquisque uxorem suam sicut seipsum diligat: uxor autem timeat virum suum. |
[1] ‘Manifestation’; the sense of the word is ‘to prove by experiment’, usually in the sense of convincing oneself. The context here suggests that the proof is for the benefit of others, as in I Cor. 3.13.
[2] ‘Only light shews up’; the Latin takes the verb in the sense of ‘to be manifest’, but the Greek allows of rendering it ‘to make (other things) manifest’, which is here more suitable to the context. Throughout this passage, St Paul is explaining that the witness of a Christian life, enlightened by grace, rebukes the wickedness of the surrounding world as inevitably as light reveals darkness.
[3] These words do not appear in Scripture, and some have thought that St Paul is quoting from a very early baptismal hymn.
[4] The words ‘flesh and bone, we belong to him’ are omitted by some Greek manuscripts, probably through the carelessness of an early transcriber. They are evidently an inexact quotation from Gen. 2.23, the next verse being quoted from Gen. 2.24.
[5] The exact bearing of this verse on the argument has been much disputed. It seems probable that the sense is, ‘These words, even as they occur in Genesis, convey an important revelation (about the meaning of human love); for us Christians they have a still deeper meaning (since human love illustrates our relation to Christ)’.
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Nihil Obstat. Father Anton Cowan, Censor.
Imprimatur. +Most Rev. Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster. 8th January 2012.
Re-typeset and published in 2012 by Baronius Press Ltd
