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1 You who are children must shew obedience in the Lord to your parents; it is your duty; 2 Honour thy father and thy mother—that is the first commandment which has a promise attached to it, 3 So it shall go well with thee, and thou shalt live long to enjoy the land. 4 You who are fathers, do not rouse your children to resentment; the training, the discipline in which you bring them up must come from the Lord. 5 You who are slaves, give your human masters the obedience you owe to Christ, in anxious fear, single-mindedly; 6 not with that show of service which tries to win human favour, but in the character of Christ’s slaves, who do what is God’s will with all their heart. 7 Yours must be a slavery of love, not to men, but to the Lord; 8 you know well that each of us, slave or free, will be repaid by the Lord for every task well done. 9 And you who are masters, deal with them accordingly; there is no need to threaten them; you know well enough that you and they have a Master in heaven, who makes no distinction between man and man. | 1 Filii, obedite parentibus vestris in Domino: hoc enim justum est. 2 Honora patrem tuum, et matrem tuam, quod est mandatum primum in promissione: 3 ut bene sit tibi, et sis longævus super terram. 4 Et vos patres, nolite ad iracundiam provocare filios vestros: sed educate illos in disciplina et correptione Domini. 5 Servi, obedite dominis carnalibus cum timore et tremore, in simplicitate cordis vestri, sicut Christo: 6 non ad oculum servientes, quasi hominibus placentes, sed ut servi Christi, facientes voluntatem Dei ex animo, 7 cum bona voluntate servientes, sicut Domino, et non hominibus: 8 scientes quoniam unusquisque quodcumque fecerit bonum, hoc recipiet a Domino, sive servus, sive liber. 9 Et vos domini, eadem facite illis, remittentes minas: scientes quia et illorum et vester Dominus est in cælis: et personarum acceptio non est apud eum. |
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10 I have no more to say, brethren, except this; draw your strength from the Lord, from that mastery which his power supplies. 11 You must wear all the weapons in God’s armoury, if you would find strength to resist the cunning of the devil. 12 It is not against flesh and blood that we enter the lists; we have to do with princedoms and powers, with those who have mastery of the world in these dark days, with malign influences in an order higher than ours. 13 Take up all God’s armour, then; so you will be able to stand your ground when the evil time comes, and be found still on your feet, when all the task is over. 14 Stand fast, your loins girt with truth, the breastplate of justice fitted on, 15 and your feet shod in readiness to publish the gospel of peace.[1] 16 With all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fire-tipped arrows of your wicked enemy; 17 make the helmet of salvation your own, and the sword of the spirit, God’s word.[2] 18 Use every kind of prayer and supplication; pray at all times in the spirit;[3] keep awake to that end with all perseverance; offer your supplication for all the saints. 19 Pray for me too, that I may be given words to speak my mind boldly, in making known the gospel revelation, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that I may have boldness to speak as I ought. 21 If you would know more of my circumstances, my occupations, you may learn all that from Tychicus, my dearly loved brother and faithful servant in the Lord; 22 that is the reason why I have sent him, to let you have news of me, and to bring courage to your hearts. 23 Peace to the brethren, and love joined with faith, from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an immortal love. Amen. | 10 De cetero, fratres, confortamini in Domino, et in potentia virtutis ejus. 11 Induite vos armaturam Dei, ut possitis stare adversus insidias diaboli: 12 quoniam non est nobis colluctatio adversus carnem et sanguinem, sed adversus principes, et potestates, adversus mundi rectores tenebrarum harum, contra spiritualia nequitiæ, in cælestibus. 13 Propterea accipite armaturam Dei, ut possitis resistere in die malo, et in omnibus perfecti stare. 14 State ergo succincti lumbos vestros in veritate, et induti loricam justitiæ, 15 et calceati pedes in præparatione Evangelii pacis, 16 in omnibus sumentes scutum fidei, in quo possitis omnia tela nequissimi ignea extinguere: 17 et galeam salutis assumite, et gladium spiritus (quod est verbum Dei), 18 per omnem orationem et obsecrationem orantes omni tempore in spiritu: et in ipso vigilantes in omni instantia et obsecratione pro omnibus sanctis: 19 et pro me, ut detur mihi sermo in apertione oris mei cum fiducia, notum facere mysterium Evangelii: 20 pro quo legatione fungor in catena, ita ut in ipso audeam, prout oportet me loqui. 21 Ut autem et vos sciatis quæ circa me sunt, quid agam, omnia vobis nota faciet Tychicus, carissimus frater, et fidelis minister in Domino: 22 quem misi ad vos in hoc ipsum, ut cognoscatis quæ circa nos sunt, et consoletur corda vestra. 23 Pax fratribus, et caritas cum fide a Deo Patre et Domino Jesu Christo. 24 Gratia cum omnibus qui diligunt Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum in incorruptione. Amen. |
[1] ‘Readiness to publish the gospel of peace’; other renderings have been suggested here, but it seems most probable that St Paul, with characteristic independence of his metaphor, is recalling the language of Is. 52.7.
[2] vv. 14-17: Cf. Is. 11.5; 59.17; Wis. 5.19. v. 17: It is not certain whether the clause ‘which is God’s utterance’ refers to the ‘sword of the spirit’, or whether we should print ‘Spirit’ with a capital, and understand St Paul to describe the Holy Spirit as God’s utterance. If we take ‘the spirit’ as meaning ‘the spiritual life’ in general, it is possible that he is telling the Ephesians to arm themselves with the word (or message) of God, which acts upon the spirit like a sword (cf. Heb. 4.12). But the sense of interpreters is greatly at variance over this passage.
[3] Here again it would be possible to print ‘in the Spirit’; if so, ‘keep awake to that end’ might also be rendered, ‘keep watchful in him’.
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Nihil Obstat. Father Anton Cowan, Censor.
Imprimatur. +Most Rev. Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster. 8th January 2012.
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