2 Corinthians 12
1 I suppose I have to boast, even though it doesn't really help. Let me go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.
Si gloriari oportet (non expedit quidem): veniam autem ad visiones, et revelationes Domini.
2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was taken up to the third heaven (whether physically in the body, or out of it, I don't know, but God knows).
Scio hominem in Christo ante annos quattuordecim, sive in corpore nescio, sive extra corpus nescio, Deus scit, raptum huiusmodi usque ad tertium cælum.
3 I know that this man (whether taken up physically in the body, or apart from it, I don't know, but God knows),
Et scio huiusmodi hominem sive in corpore, sive extra corpus nescio, Deus scit:
4 how he was taken up into Paradise, and heard things too wonderful to be spoken, in words so sacred that no human being is allowed to say.
quoniam raptus est in Paradisum: et audivit arcana verba, quæ non licet homini loqui.
5 Something like that I'll boast about, but I won't boast about myself, except for my weaknesses.
Pro huiusmodi gloriabor: pro me autem nihil gloriabor nisi in infirmitatibus meis.
6 I wouldn't be foolish if I wanted to boast, because I'd be telling the truth. But I won't boast, so that nobody will think more of me than what they see me doing or hear me saying.
Nam, et si voluero gloriari, non ero insipiens: veritatem enim dicam: parco autem, ne quis me existimet supra id, quod videt in me, aut aliquid audit ex me.
7 Also, because these revelations were so amazingly great, and so that I wouldn't become proud, I was given a “thorn in my flesh”—a messenger from Satan to hurt me so that I wouldn't become proud.
Et ne magnitudo revelationum extollat me, datus est mihi stimulus carnis meæ angelus Satanæ, qui me colaphizet.
8 I pleaded with the Lord three times to get rid of this problem.
Propter quod ter Dominum rogavi ut discederet a me:
9 But he told me, “My grace is all you will need, for my power is effective in weakness.” That's why I happily boast about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may reside in me.
et dixit mihi: Sufficit tibi gratia mea: nam virtus in infirmitate perficitur. Libenter igitur gloriabor in infirmitatibus meis, ut inhabitet in me virtus Christi.
10 So I appreciate weaknesses, insults, troubles, persecutions, and difficulties that I suffer for Christ's sake. For when I'm weak, then I'm strong!
Propter quod placeo mihi in infirmitatibus meis, in contumeliis, in necessitatibus, in persecutionibus, in angustiis pro Christo: Cum enim infirmor, tunc potens sum.
11 I'm talking like a fool, but you made me do it! You should really have been speaking well of me, for in no way am I inferior to the super-apostles, even though I don't count for anything.
Factus sum insipiens, vos me coegistis. Ego enim a vobis debui commendari: nihil enim minus fui ab iis, qui sunt supra modum Apostoli: tametsi nihil sum:
12 Yet the marks of an apostle were patiently demonstrated among you—signs, wonders, and powerful miracles.
signa tamen Apostolatus mei facta sunt super vos in omni patientia, in signis, et prodigiis, et virtutibus.
13 In what way were you inferior to the other churches except I wasn't any burden to you? Please forgive me for doing you wrong!
Quid est enim, quod minus habuistis præ ceteris Ecclesiis, nisi quod ego ipse non gravavi vos? Donate mihi hanc iniuriam.
14 Now I'm preparing to visit you for the third time, and I won't be a burden to you. I don't want what you have, I want you yourselves! After all, children shouldn't save up for their parents, but parents should for their children.
Ecce tertio hoc paratus sum venire ad vos: et non ero gravis vobis. Non enim quæro quæ vestra sunt, sed vos. Nec enim debent filii parentibus thesaurizare, sed parentes filiis.
15 I will happily spend myself, and be spent, for you. If I love you so much more, will you love me even less?
Ego autem libentissime impendam, et superimpendar ipse pro animabus vestris: licet plus vos diligens, minus diligar.
16 Well, even if that's so, I wasn't a burden to you. Maybe I was being devious, and tricked you with my cunning ways!
Sed esto: ego vos non gravavi: sed cum essem astutus, dolo vos cepi.
17 But did I take advantage of you by anyone I've sent to you?
Numquid per aliquem eorum, quod misi ad vos, circumveni vos?
18 I urged Titus to go and see you, and I sent another brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? No, we both have the same spirit and use the same methods.
Rogavi Titum, et misi cum illo fratrem. Numquid Titus vos circumvenit? nonne eodem spiritu ambulavimus? nonne iisdem vestigiis?
19 Maybe you're thinking that all along we've been just trying to defend ourselves. No, we speak for Christ before God. Everything we do, friends, is for your benefit.
Olim putatis quod excusemus nos apud vos? Coram Deo in Christo loquimur: omnia autem charissimi propter ædificationem vestram.
20 I do worry when I visit that somehow I won't find you as I would want to, and that you won't find me as you would want to! I'm afraid that there will be arguments, jealousy, anger, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
Timeo enim ne forte cum venero, non quales volo, inveniam vos: et ego inveniar a vobis, qualem non vultis: ne forte contentiones, æmulationes, animositates, dissensiones, detractiones, susurrationes, inflationes, seditiones sint inter vos:
21 I'm afraid that when I visit, my God will humble me in your presence, and that I will be weeping over many of those who have sinned previously, and who still have not repented of impurity, sexual immorality, and indecent acts that they committed.
ne iterum cum venero, humiliet me Deus apud vos, et lugeam multos ex iis, qui ante peccaverunt, et non egerunt pœnitentiam super immunditia, et fornicatione, et impudicitia, quam gesserunt.
