Epistula ad Romanos, 9

1. veritatem dico in Christo non mentior testimonium mihi perhibente conscientia mea in Spiritu Sancto

1. And not only she. But when Rebecca also had conceived at once, of Isaac our father.

2. quoniam tristitia est mihi magna et continuus dolor cordi meo

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3. optabam enim ipse ego anathema esse a Christo pro fratribus meis qui sunt cognati mei secundum carnem

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4. qui sunt Israhelitæ quorum adoptio est filiorum et gloria et testamenta et legislatio et obsequium et promissa

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5. quorum patres et ex quibus Christus secundum carnem qui est super omnia Deus benedictus in sæcula amen

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6. non autem quod exciderit verbum Dei non enim omnes qui ex Israël hii sunt Israël

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7. neque quia semen sunt Abrahæ omnes filii sed in Isaac vocabitur tibi semen

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8. id est non qui filii carnis hii filii Dei sed qui filii sunt promissionis æstimantur in semine

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9. promissionis enim verbum hoc est secundum hoc tempus veniam et erit Sarræ filius

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10. non solum autem sed et Rebecca ex uno concubitum habens Isaac patre nostro

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11. cum enim nondum nati fuissent aut aliquid egissent bonum aut malum ut secundum electionem propositum Dei maneret

11. For when the children were not yet born, nor had done any good or evil (that the purpose of God, according to election, might stand,)

12. non ex operibus sed ex vocante dictum est ei quia major serviet minori

12. Not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger.

13. sicut scriptum est Jacob dilexi Esau autem odio habui

13. As it is written: Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.

14. quid ergo dicemus numquid iniquitas apud Deum absit

14. What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid.

15. Mosi enim dicit miserebor cujus misereor et misericordiam præstabo cujus miserebor

15. For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy; and I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy.

16. igitur non volentis neque currentis sed miserentis Dei

16. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

17. dicit enim scriptura Pharaoni quia in hoc ipsum excitavi te ut ostendam in te virtutem meam et ut adnuntietur nomen meum in universa terra

17. For the scripture saith to Pharao: To this purpose have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

18. ergo cujus vult miseretur et quem vult indurat

18. Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will; and whom he will, he hardeneth.

19. dicis itaque mihi quid adhuc queritur voluntati enim ejus quis resistit

19. Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? for who resisteth his will?

20. o homo tu quis es qui respondeas Deo numquid dicit figmentum ei qui se finxit quid me fecisti sic

20. O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?

21. an non habet potestatem figulus luti ex eadem massa facere aliud quidem vas in honorem aliud vero in contumeliam

21. Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

22. quod si volens Deus ostendere iram et notam facere potentiam suam sustinuit in multa patientia vasa iræ aptata in interitum

22. What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction,

23. ut ostenderet divitias gloriæ suæ in vasa misericordiæ quæ præparavit in gloriam

23. That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he hath prepared unto glory?

24. quos et vocavit nos non solum ex Judæis sed etiam ex gentibus

24. Even us, whom also he hath called, nor only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles.

25. sicut in Osee dicit vocabo non plebem meam plebem meam et non misericordiam consecutam misericordiam consecutam

25. As in Osee he saith: I will call that which was not my people, my people; and her that was not beloved, beloved; and her that had not obtained mercy, one that hath obtained mercy.

26. et erit in loco ubi dictum est eis non plebs mea vos ibi vocabuntur filii Dei vivi

26. And it shall be, in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people; there they shall be called the sons of the living God.

27. Esajas autem clamat pro Israël si fuerit numerus filiorum Israël tamquam harena maris reliquiæ salvæ fient

27. And Isaias crieth out concerning Israel: If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

28. verbum enim consummans et brevians in æquitate quia verbum breviatum faciet Dominus super terram

28. For he shall finish his word, and cut it short in justice; because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.

29. et sicut prædixit Esajas nisi Dominus Sabaoth reliquisset nobis semen sicut Sodoma facti essemus et sicut Gomorra similes fuissemus

29. And as Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom, and we had been like unto Gomorrha.

30. quid ergo dicemus quod gentes quæ non sectabantur justitiam adprehenderunt justitiam justitiam autem quæ ex fide est

30. What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who followed not after justice, have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith.

31. Israël vero sectans legem justitiæ in legem justitiæ non pervenit

31. But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice.

32. quare quia non ex fide sed quasi ex operibus offenderunt in lapidem offensionis

32. Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone.

33. sicut scriptum est ecce pono in Sion lapidem offensionis et petram scandali et omnis qui credit in eum non confundetur

33. As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and a rock of scandal; and whosoever believeth in him shall not be confounded.