Lucam 17
1 Et ait ad discipulos suos: Impossibile est ut non veniant scandala: væ autem illi per quem veniunt.
Jesus said to his disciples: “It is inevitable that there should be snares; yet alas for him who is answerable for them!
2 Utilius est illi si lapis molaris imponatur circa collum ejus, et projiciatur in mare quam ut scandalizet unum de pusillis istis.
It would be good for him if he had been flung into the sea with a mill-stone round his neck, rather than that he should prove a snare to even one of these lowly ones.
3 Attendite vobis: Si peccaverit in te frater tuus, increpa illum: et si pœnitentiam egerit, dimitte illi.
Be on your guard! If your brother does wrong, reprove him; but if he repents, forgive him.
4 Et si septies in die peccaverit in te, et septies in die conversus fuerit ad te, dicens: Pœnitet me, dimitte illi.
Even if he wrongs you seven times a day, but turns to you every time and says ‘I am sorry,’ you must forgive him.”
5 Et dixerunt apostoli Domino: Adauge nobis fidem.
“Give us more faith,” said the Apostles to the Master;
6 Dixit autem Dominus: Si habueritis fidem sicut granum sinapis, dicetis huic arbori moro: Eradicare, et transplantare in mare, et obediet vobis.
but the Master said: “If your faith were only like a mustard-seed, you could say to this mulberry tree ‘Be up-rooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
7 Quis autem vestrum habens servum arantem aut pascentem, qui regresso de agro dicat illi: Statim transi, recumbe:
Which of you, if he had a servant ploughing, or tending the sheep, would say to him, when he came in from the fields, ‘Come at once and take your place at table,’
8 et non dicat ei: Para quod cœnem, et præcinge te, et ministra mihi donec manducem, et bibam, et post hæc tu manducabis, et bibes?
Instead of saying ‘Prepare my dinner, and then make yourself ready and wait on me while I am eating and drinking, and after that you shall eat and drink yourself’?
9 Numquid gratiam habet servo illi, quia fecit quæ ei imperaverat?
Does he feel grateful to his servant for doing what he is told?
10 non puto. Sic et vos cum feceritis omnia quæ præcepta sunt vobis, dicite: Servi inutiles sumus: quod debuimus facere, fecimus.
And so with you — when you have done all that you have been told, still say ‘We are but useless servants; we have done no more than we ought to have done.’”
11 Et factum est, dum iret in Jerusalem, transibat per mediam Samariam et Galilæam.
On the way to Jerusalem Jesus passed between Samaria and Galilee.
12 Et cum ingrederetur quoddam castellum, occurrerunt ei decem viri leprosi, qui steterunt a longe:
As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him.
13 et levaverunt vocem, dicentes: Jesu præceptor, miserere nostri.
Standing still, some distance off, they called out loudly: “Jesus! Sir! pity us!”
14 Quos ut vidit, dixit: Ite, ostendite vos sacerdotibus. Et factum est, dum irent, mundati sunt.
When Jesus saw them, he said: “Go and show yourselves to the priest.” And, as they were on their way, they were made clean.
15 Unus autem ex illis, ut vidit quia mundatus est, regressus est, cum magna voce magnificans Deum,
One of them, finding he was cured, came back, praising God loudly,
16 et cecidit in faciem ante pedes ejus, gratias agens: et hic erat Samaritanus.
and threw himself on his face at Jesus’ feet, thanking him for what he had done; and this man was a Samaritan.
17 Respondens autem Jesus, dixit: Nonne decem mundati sunt? et novem ubi sunt?
“Were not all the ten made clean? exclaimed Jesus. But the nine — where are they?
18 Non est inventus qui rediret, et daret gloriam Deo, nisi hic alienigena.
Were there none to come back and praise God except this foreigner?
19 Et ait illi: Surge, vade: quia fides tua te salvum fecit.
Get up,” he said to him, “and go on your way. Your faith has delivered you.”
20 Interrogatus autem a pharisæis: Quando venit regnum Dei? respondens eis, dixit: Non venit regnum Dei cum observatione:
Being once asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God was to come, Jesus answered: “The Kingdom of God does not come in a way that admits of observation,
21 neque dicent: Ecce hic, aut ecce illic. Ecce enim regnum Dei intra vos est.
nor will people say ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’; for the Kingdom of God is within you!
22 Et ait ad discipulos suos: Venient dies quando desideretis videre unum diem Filii hominis, et non videbitis.
The day will come,” he said to his disciples, “when you will long to see but one of the days of the Son of Man, and will not see it.
23 Et dicent vobis: Ecce hic, et ecce illic. Nolite ire, neque sectemini:
People will say to you ‘There he is! or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go and follow them.
24 nam, sicut fulgur coruscans de sub cælo in ea quæ sub cælo sunt, fulget: ita erit Filius hominis in die sua.
For, just as lightning will lighten and flare from one side of the heavens to the other, so will it be with the Son of Man.
25 Primum autem oportet illum multa pati, et reprobari a generatione hac.
But first he must undergo much suffering, and he must be rejected by the present generation.
26 Et sicut factum est in diebus Noë, ita erit et in diebus Filii hominis:
As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be again in the days of the Son of Man.
27 edebant et bibebant: uxores ducebant et dabantur ad nuptias, usque in diem, qua intravit Noë in arcam: et venit diluvium, et perdidit omnes.
They were eating and drinking and marrying and being married, up to the very day on which Noah entered the ark, and then the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 Similiter sicut factum est in diebus Lot: edebant et bibebant, emebant et vendebant, plantabant et ædificabant:
So, too, in the days of Lot. People were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;
29 qua die autem exiit Lot a Sodomis, pluit ignem et sulphur de cælo, et omnes perdidit:
but, on the very day on which Lot came out of Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from the skies and destroyed them all.
30 secundum hæc erit qua die Filius hominis revelabitur.
It will be the same on the day on which the Son of Man reveals himself.
31 In illa hora, qui fuerit in tecto, et vasa ejus in domo, ne descendat tollere illa: et qui in agro, similiter non redeat retro.
On that day, if a man is on his house-top and his goods in the house, he must not go down to get them; nor again must one who is on the farm turn back.
32 Memores estote uxoris Lot.
Remember Lot’s wife.
33 Quicumque quæsierit animam suam salvam facere, perdet illam: et quicumque perdiderit illam, vivificabit eam.
Whoever is eager to get the most out of his life will lose it; but whoever will lose it shall preserve it.
34 Dico vobis: In illa nocte erunt duo in lecto uno: unus assumetur, et alter relinquetur:
On that night, I tell you, of two men upon the same bed, one will be taken and the other left;
35 duæ erunt molentes in unum: una assumetur, et altera relinquetur: duo in agro: unus assumetur, et alter relinquetur.
of two women grinding together, one will be taken and the other left.”
36 Respondentes dicunt illi: Ubi Domine?
37 Qui dixit illis: Ubicumque fuerit corpus, illuc congregabuntur et aquilæ.
“Where will it be, Master?” interposed the disciples. “Where there is a body,” said Jesus, “‘there will the vultures flock.’”
