Hebræos 12
1 Ideoque et nos tantam habentes impositam nubem testium, deponentes omne pondus, et circumstans nos peccatum, per patientiam curramus ad propositum nobis certamen:
Therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having put off every weight and cleverly entangling sin, let us run by perseverance the contest being set before us.
2 aspicientes in Auctorem fidei, et consummatorem Iesum, qui proposito sibi gaudio sustinuit crucem, confusione contempta, atque in dextera sedis Dei sedet.
Looking to Jesus the pathfinder and perfecter of the faith, who, against the joy set before him, endured a cross, having despised the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 Recogitate enim eum, qui talem sustinuit a peccatoribus adversum semetipsum contradictionem: ut ne fatigemini, animis vestris deficientes.
For consider the man who endured such hostility against him by sinners, so that ye may not be weary in your souls, being disheartened.
4 Nondum enim usque ad sanguinem restitistis, adversus peccatum repugnantes:
Ye have not yet resisted as far as blood, struggling against sin.
5 et obliti estis consolationis, quæ vobis tamquam filiis loquitur, dicens: Fili mi, noli negligere disciplinam Domini: neque fatigeris dum ab eo argueris.
And have ye forgotten the exhortation that reasons with you as with sons, My son, do not disparage the chastening of the Lord, nor become disheartened when punished by him?
6 Quem enim diligit Dominus, castigat: flagellat autem omnem filium, quem recipit.
For whom the Lord loves he chastens. And he whips every son whom he receives.
7 In disciplina perseverate. Tamquam filiis vobis offert se Deus: quis enim filius, quem non corripit pater?
Because of chastening ye endure; God is treating you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?
8 Quod si extra disciplinam estis, cuius participes facti sunt omnes: ergo adulteri, et non filii estis.
And if ye are without chastening, of which all have become participants, then ye are bastards, and not sons.
9 Deinde patres quidem carnis nostræ, eruditores habuimus, et reverebamur eos. Non multo magis obtemperabimus Patri spirituum, et vivemus?
Besides, we indeed have had chastisers-the fathers of our flesh-and we were turned around. Shall we not much more be subordinate to the Father of the spirits, and we will live?
10 Et illi quidem in tempore paucorum dierum, secundum voluntatem suam erudiebant nos: hic autem ad id, quod utile est in recipiendo sanctificationem eius.
For those men indeed for a few days chastened us according to that which seemed good to them, but he for that which is advantageous, in order to be partakers of his holiness.
11 Omnis autem disciplina in præsenti quidem videtur non esse gaudii, sed mœroris: postea autem fructum pacatissimum exercitatis per eam, reddet iustitiæ.
But of course no chastening for the present seems to be of joy but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
12 Propter quod remissas manus, et soluta genua, erigite,
Therefore lift up the drooping hands, and the feeble knees,
13 et gressus rectos facite pedibus vestris: ut non claudicans quis erret, magis autem sanetur.
and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be turned away, but may be healed instead.
14 Pacem sequimini cum omnibus, et sanctimoniam, sine qua nemo videbit Deum:
Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord.
15 contemplantes ne quis desit gratiæ Dei: ne qua radix amaritudinis sursum germinans impediat, et per illam inquinentur multi:
Looking carefully lest any man fall short, away from the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness sprouting up would cause trouble, and by this many may be defiled,
16 ne quis fornicator, aut profanus ut Esau: qui propter unam escam vendidit primitiva sua:
lest a fornicator or profane man like Esau, who, in place of one meal sold his birthright.
17 scitote enim quoniam et postea cupiens hereditare benedictionem, reprobatus est: non enim invenit pœnitentiæ locum, quamquam cum lacrymis inquisisset eam.
For ye also know that wanting afterward to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, though having sought it with tears.
18 Non enim accessistis ad tractabilem montem, et accensibilem ignem, et turbinem, et caliginem, et procellam,
For ye have not come to a mountain being felt, and which burned with fire, and to darkness, and gloom, and a tempest,
19 et tubæ sonum, et vocem verborum, quam qui audierunt, excusaverunt se, ne eis fieret verbum.
and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of words, of which those who heard begged that a word not be added to them.
20 Non enim portabant quod dicebatur: Et si bestia tetigerit montem, lapidabitur.
For they did not bear that which was commanded, if even a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned.
21 Et ita terribile erat quod videbatur. Moyses dixit: Exterritus sum, et tremebundus.
And so fearful was that which was made visible, that Moses said, I am terrified and trembling.
22 Sed accessistis ad Sion montem, et civitatem Dei viventis, Ierusalem cælestem, et multorum millium Angelorum frequentiam,
But ye have come to mount Zion, and to the city of a living God, a heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of agents,
23 et Ecclesiam primitivorum, qui conscripti sunt in cælis, et iudicem omnium Deum, et spiritus iustorum perfectorum,
to a festal gathering and assembly of firstborn sons who were enrolled in the heavens, and to God, a Judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men who were made fully perfect,
24 et testamenti novi mediatorem Iesum, et sanguinis aspersionem melius loquentem quam Abel.
and to Jesus a mediator of a new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling that speaks better than Abel.
25 Videte ne recusetis loquentem. Si enim illi non effugerunt, recusantes eum, qui super terram loquebatur: multo magis nos, qui de cælis loquentem nobis avertimus.
Watch, that ye not refuse him who speaks. For if those men did not escape, having refused him who spoke a divine message on earth, much more we, those who turn away from him from the heavens,
26 Cuius vox movit terram tunc: nunc autem repromittit, dicens: Adhuc semel: et ego movebo non solum terram, sed et cælum.
whose voice then shook the earth. But now he has promised, saying, Yet once, I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.
27 Quod autem, Adhuc semel, dicit: declarat mobilium translationem tamquam factorum, ut maneant ea, quæ sunt immobilia.
And the, Yet once, signifies the removal of the things being shaken-as of things that were made-so that the things not being shaken may remain.
28 Itaque regnum immobile suscipientes, habemus gratiam: per quam serviamus placentes Deo, cum metu et reverentia.
Therefore, receiving an immovable kingdom, we may have grace, through which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and awe.
29 Etenim Deus noster ignis consumens est.
For our God is also a consuming fire.
