My LORD’s BiblePhilemon 1
The Douay-Rheims Bible in Bishop Challoner's revision (1749-52), the standard English Bible of the Catholic Church for two centuries, translated from the Latin Vulgate, with the Clementine Vulgate Latin beside each verse. The English is that of Project Gutenberg's electronic text, with Challoner's notes left out; the Latin is the Clementine Vulgate of 1598, with the medieval Glossa Ordinaria commentary of the edition left out. Book names and chapter and verse numbers follow the Vulgate, so the Psalms are numbered as in the Vulgate (Psalm 22 here is Psalm 23 in the King James Version).
4I give thanks to my God, always making a remembrance of thee in my prayers.
Gratias ago Deo meo, semper memoriam tui faciens in orationibus meis,
6That the communication of thy faith may be made evident in the acknowledgment of every good work that is in you in Christ Jesus.
ut communicatio fidei tuæ evidens fiat in agnitione omnis operis boni, quod est in vobis in Christo Jesu.
7For I have had great joy and consolation in thy charity, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother.
Gaudium enim magnum habui, et consolationem in caritate tua: quia viscera sanctorum requieverunt per te, frater.
8Wherefore, though I have much confidence in Christ Jesus to command thee that which is to the purpose:
Propter quod multam fiduciam habens in Christo Jesu imperandi tibi quod ad rem pertinet:
9For charity sake I rather beseech, whereas thou art such a one, as Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also of Jesus Christ.
propter caritatem magis obsecro, cum sis talis, ut Paulus senex, nunc autem et vinctus Jesu Christi:
11Who hath been heretofore unprofitable to thee but now is profitable both to me and thee:
qui tibi aliquando inutilis fuit, nunc autem et mihi et tibi utilis,
12Whom I have sent back to thee. And do thou receive him as my own bowels.
quem remisi tibi. Tu autem illum, ut mea viscera, suscipe:
13Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered to me in the bands of the gospel.
quem ego volueram mecum detinere, ut pro te mihi ministraret in vinculis Evangelii:
14But without thy counsel I would do nothing: that thy good deed might not be as it were of necessity, but voluntary.
sine consilio autem tuo nihil volui facere, uti ne velut ex necessitate bonum tuum esset, sed voluntarium.
15For perhaps he therefore departed for a season from thee that thou mightest receive him again for ever:
Forsitan enim ideo discessit ad horam a te, ut æternum illum reciperes:
16Not now as a servant, but instead of a servant, a most dear brother, especially to me. But how much more to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord?
jam non ut servum, sed pro servo carissimum fratrem, maxime mihi: quanto autem magis tibi et in carne, et in Domino?
17If therefore thou count me a partner, receive him as myself.
Si ergo habes me socium, suscipe illum sicut me:
18And if he hath wronged thee in any thing or is in thy debt, put that to my account.
si autem aliquid nocuit tibi, aut debet, hoc mihi imputa.
19I Paul have written it with my own hand: I will repay it: not to say to thee that thou owest me thy own self also.
Ego Paulus scripsi mea manu: ego reddam, ut non dicam tibi, quod et teipsum mihi debes:
20Yea, brother. May I enjoy thee in the Lord! Refresh my bowels in the Lord.
ita, frater. Ego te fruar in Domino: refice viscera mea in Domino.
21Trusting in thy obedience, I have written to thee: knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.
Confidens in obedientia tua scripsi tibi: sciens quoniam et super id, quod dico, facies.
22But withal prepare me also a lodging. For I hope that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.
Simul autem et para mihi hospitium: nam spero per orationes vestras donari me vobis.
23There salute thee Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus:
Salutat te Epaphras concaptivus meus in Christo Jesu,
24Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my fellow labourers.
Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, et Lucas, adjutores mei.