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| 1 Ὅ |
1 Those who are bound to slavery must treat their masters as entitled to all respect; otherwise God’s name and our doctrine will be ill spoken of. 2 And those whose masters belong to the faith must not think the less of them, for being their brethren; they should render all the better service, when those who benefit by their good will are believers, worthy of their love. Teach them, and encourage them, so to act. 3 Is there some rival teacher, who refuses assent to the sound principles which are the principles of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the doctrine which accords with holiness? 4 Then it is because he is puffed up with vanity; knowledge he has none, but an itch for speculation and controversy. What comes of it? Only jealousy, quarrelling, recriminations and base suspicions, 5 all such encounters as must arise between men with corrupted minds who have lost track of the truth. Religion, they think, will provide them with a living. 6 And indeed, religion is ample provision for life, though no more than a bare sufficiency goes with it.[1] 7 Empty-handed we came into the world, and empty-handed, beyond question, we must leave it; 8 why then, if we have food and clothing to last us out, let us be content with that. 9 Those who would be rich fall into temptation, the devil’s trap for them; all those useless and dangerous appetites which sink men into ruin here and perdition hereafter. 10 The love of money is a root from which every kind of evil springs, and there are those who have wandered away from the faith by making it their ambition, involving themselves in a world of sorrows.[2] | 1 Quicumque sunt sub jugo servi, dominos suos omni honore dignos arbitrentur, ne nomen Domini et doctrina blasphemetur. 2 Qui autem fideles habent dominos, non contemnant, quia fratres sunt: sed magis serviant, quia fideles sunt et dilecti, qui beneficii participes sunt. Hæc doce, et exhortare. 3 Si quis aliter docet, et non acquiescit sanis sermonibus Domini nostri Jesu Christi, et ei, quæ secundum pietatem est, doctrinæ: 4 superbus est, nihil sciens, sed languens circa quæstiones, et pugnas verborum: ex quibus oriuntur invidiæ, contentiones, blasphemiæ, suspiciones malæ, 5 conflictationes hominum mente corruptorum, et qui veritate privati sunt, existimantium quæstum esse pietatem. 6 Est autem quæstus magnus pietas cum sufficientia. 7 Nihil enim intulimus in hunc mundum: haud dubium quod nec auferre quid possumus. 8 Habentes autem alimenta, et quibus tegamur, his contenti simus. 9 Nam qui volunt divites fieri, incidunt in tentationem, et in laqueum diaboli, et desideria multa inutilia, et nociva, quæ mergunt homines in interitum et perditionem. 10 Radix enim omnium malorum est cupiditas: quam quidam appetentes erraverunt a fide, et inseruerunt se doloribus multis. |
| 11 |
11 It is for thee, servant of God, to shun all this; to aim at right living, holiness, and faith, and love, and endurance, and kind forbearance. 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay thy grasp on eternal life, that life thou wert called to, when thou didst assert the great claim before so many witnesses. 13 I adjure thee before the God who gives life to all things, before Christ Jesus who bore witness to that great claim when he stood before Pontius Pilate, 14 to fulfil thy charge without stain of reproach until the day when our Lord Jesus Christ appears. 15 God will reveal him in due time, the blessed God who alone enjoys dominion; he is King of kings, and Lord of lords; 16 to him alone immortality belongs, his dwelling is in unapproachable light; no human eye has seen or can ever see him; to him be glory and everlasting empire, Amen. 17 Warn those who are rich in this present world not to think highly of themselves, not to repose their hopes in the riches that may fail us, but in the living God, who bestows on us so richly all that we enjoy. 18 Let them do good, enrich their lives with charitable deeds, always ready to give, and to share the common burden, 19 laying down a sure foundation for themselves in time to come, so as to have life which is true life within their grasp. 20 It is for thee, Timothy, to keep safe what has been entrusted to thee, avoiding these new, intruding forms of speech, this quibbling knowledge that is knowledge only in name;[3] 21 there are those who profess them, and in professing them have shot wide of the mark which faith sets us. Grace be with thee, Amen. | 11 Tu autem, o homo Dei, hæc fuge: sectare vero justitiam, pietatem, fidem, caritatem, patientiam, mansuetudinem. 12 Certa bonum certamen fidei, apprehende vitam æternam, in qua vocatus es, et confessus bonam confessionem coram multis testibus. 13 Præcipio tibi coram Deo, qui vivificat omnia, et Christo Jesu, qui testimonium reddidit sub Pontio Pilato, bonam confessionem, 14 ut serves mandatum sine macula, irreprehensibile usque in adventum Domini nostri Jesu Christi, 15 quem suis temporibus ostendet beatus et solus potens, Rex regum, et Dominus dominantium: 16 qui solus habet immortalitatem, et lucem inhabitat inaccessibilem: quem nullus hominum vidit, sed nec videre potest: cui honor, et imperium sempiternum. Amen. 17 Divitibus hujus sæculi præcipe non sublime sapere, neque sperare in incerto divitiarum, sed in Deo vivo (qui præstat nobis omnia abunde ad fruendum) 18 bene agere, divites fieri in bonis operibus, facile tribuere, communicare, 19 thesaurizare sibi fundamentum bonum in futurum, ut apprehendant veram vitam. 20 O Timothee, depositum custodi, devitans profanas vocum novitates, et oppositiones falsi nominis scientiæ, 21 quam quidam promittentes, circa fidem exciderunt. Gratia tecum. Amen. |
[1] ‘Though no more than a bare sufficiency goes with it’; the Greek might also be translated, ‘if it goes together with contentment’.
[2] ‘Involving themselves in’ has rather, in the Greek, the meaning of ‘stabbing themselves with’.
[3] For ‘new’ the best Greek manuscripts have ‘empty’.
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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
