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1 Dicebat autem et ad discipulos suos: Homo quidam erat dives, qui habebat villicum: et hic diffamatus est apud illum quasi dissipasset bona ipsius.
Then He said further to His disciples: “There was a certain rich man who had a manager, who was accused to him of wasting his goods.
2 Et vocavit illum, et ait illi: Quid hoc audio de te? redde rationem villicationis tuæ: iam enim non poteris villicare.
So he called him in and said to him: ‘What is this I hear about you? Render an account of your stewardship, because you can no longer be manager.’
3 Ait autem villicus intra se: Quid faciam quia dominus meus aufert a me villicationem? fodere non valeo, mendicare erubesco.
Then the manager said within himself: ‘What shall I do? My master is taking the management away from me. I do not have strength to dig; I am ashamed to beg
4 Scio quid faciam, ut, cum amotus fuero a villicatione, recipiant me in domos suas.
—I know what I will do, so that whenever I am removed from the management they may receive me into their houses.’
5 Convocatis itaque singulis debitoribus domini sui, dicebat primo: Quantum debes domino meo?
Summoning each one of his master's debtors, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’
6 At ille dixit: Centum cados olei. Dixitque illi: Accipe cautionem tuam: et sede cito, scribe quinquaginta.
And he said, ‘A hundred baths of olive oil.’ So he said to him, ‘Take your bill and sit down quickly and write fifty.’
7 Deinde alii dixit: Tu vero quantum debes? Qui ait: Centum coros tritici. Ait illi: Accipe litteras tuas, et scribe octoginta.
Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ So he said to him, ‘Take your bill and write eighty.’
8 Et laudavit dominus villicum iniquitatis, quia prudenter fecisset: quia filii huius sæculi prudentiores filiis lucis in generatione sua sunt. (aiōn g165)
The master even ‘commended’ the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. The sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the Light. (aiōn g165)
9 Et ego vobis dico: facite vobis amicos de mammona iniquitatis: ut, cum defeceritis, recipiant vos in æterna tabernacula. (aiōnios g166)
“I even say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that whenever you fail, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings! (aiōnios g166)
10 Qui fidelis est in minimo, et in maiori fidelis est: et qui in modico iniquus est, et in maiori iniquus est.
He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much, and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much.
11 Si ergo in iniquo mammona fideles non fuistis: quod verum est, quis credet vobis?
If therefore you have not been faithful with the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the genuine?
12 Et si in alieno fideles non fuistis: quod vestrum est, quis dabit vobis?
And if you have not been faithful in what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own?
13 Nemo servus potest duobus dominis servire: aut enim unum odiet, et alterum diliget: aut uni adhærebit, et alterum contemnet: non potestis Deo servire, et mammonæ.
No servant can serve two masters; either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon!”
14 Audiebant autem omnia hæc Pharisæi, qui erant avari: et deridebant illum.
Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were also listening to all these things, and they were ridiculing Him.
15 Et ait illis: Vos estis, qui iustificatis vos coram hominibus: Deus autem novit corda vestra: quia quod hominibus altum est, abominatio est ante Deum.
So He said to them: “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. That which is exalted among men is an abomination before God.
16 Lex, et prophetæ usque ad Ioannem: ex eo regnum Dei evangelizatur, et omnis in illud vim facit.
The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the Kingdom of God is being proclaimed, and every one is trying to force his way into it.
17 Facilius est autem cælum, et terram præterire, quam de Lege unum apicem cadere.
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the Law to fail.
18 Omnis, qui dimittit uxorem suam, et alteram ducit, mœchatur: et qui dimissam a viro ducit, mœchatur.
“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.
19 Homo quidam erat dives, qui induebatur purpura, et bysso: et epulabatur quotidie splendide.
“Now there was a certain rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
20 Et erat quidam mendicus, nomine Lazarus, qui iacebat ad ianuam eius, ulceribus plenus,
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores, who had been placed at his gate,
21 cupiens saturari de micis, quæ cadebant de mensa divitis, et nemo illi dabat: sed et canes veniebant, et lingebant ulcera eius.
just wanting to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table—why even the dogs would come and lick his sores!
22 Factum est autem ut moreretur mendicus, et portaretur ab Angelis in sinum Abrahæ. Mortuus est autem et dives,
In due time the beggar died and was carried away to Abraham's bosom by the angels. “The rich man also died and was buried.
23 et sepultus est in inferno. Elevans autem oculos suos, cum esset in tormentis, vidit Abraham a longe, et Lazarum in sinu eius: (Hadēs g86)
And in Hades he looked up and saw Abraham at a distance, and Lazarus very close to him. And being in torment, (Hadēs g86)
24 et ipse clamans dixit: Pater Abraham, miserere mei, et mitte Lazarum ut intingat extremum digiti sui in aquam ut refrigeret linguam meam, quia crucior in hac flamma.
he called out, saying, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; because I am tormented by this flame!’
25 Et dixit illi Abraham: Fili, recordare quia recepisti bona in vita tua, et Lazarus similiter mala: nunc autem hic consolatur, tu vero cruciaris.
But Abraham said: ‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus had bad things; but now he is being comforted, and you tormented.
26 et in his omnibus inter nos, et vos chaos magnum firmatum est: ut hi, qui volunt hinc transire ad vos, non possint, neque inde huc transmeare.
And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can anyone from there cross over to us.’
27 Et ait: Rogo ergo te pater ut mittas eum in domum patris mei.
Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house,
28 habeo enim quinque fratres, ut testetur illis, ne et ipsi veniant in hunc locum tormentorum.
because I have five brothers, so that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’
29 Et ait illi Abraham: Habent Moysen, et prophetas: audiant illos.
Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’
30 At ille dixit: Non, pater Abraham: sed si quis ex mortuis ierit ad eos, pœnitentiam agent.
So he said to him, ‘Oh no, father Abraham—if someone from the dead should go to them, they will repent!’
31 Ait autem illi: Si Moysen, et prophetas non audiunt, neque si quis ex mortuis resurrexerit, credent.
He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone should rise from the dead.’”
