For we are the circumcision, who in spirit serve God; and glory in Christ Jesus, not having confidence in the flesh.4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinketh he may have confidence in the flesh, I more,5 Being circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; according to the law, a Pharisee:6 According to zeal, persecuting the church of God; according to the justice that is in the law, conversing without blame.7 But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss for Christ.8 Furthermore I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ:
"But who are you, most excellent man?" So I replied to him in jest.
Then he told me frankly both his name and his family. "Trypho," says he, "I am called; and I am a Hebrew of the circumcision, and having escaped from the war lately carried on there I am spending my days in Greece, and chiefly at Corinth."
"And in what," said I, "would you be profited by philosophy so much as by your own lawgiver and the prophets?"
Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works.3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.4 Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.5 Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.7 He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
In Psalm 104 [LXX], David, when referring to the stories of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the very men who were his godly ancestors, who lived before Moses' day, calls them Christs, only because they all received the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And when he tells how they were hospitably received by foreigners, and how they learned that God was their Savior when plots were devised against them, following Moses' account, he names them prophets also and Christs, before Moses had been born and before he had laid down the rule that such men should be anointed with oil.
Now the publicans and sinners drew near unto him to hear him.2 And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying: This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.3 And he spoke to them this parable, saying:4 What man of you that hath an hundred sheep: and if he shall lose one of them, doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the desert, and go after that which was lost, until he find it?5 And when he hath found it, lay it upon his shoulders, rejoicing:6 And coming home, call together his friends and neighbours, saying to them: Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost?7 I say to you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven upon one sinner that doth penance, more than upon ninety-nine just who need not penance.8 Or what woman having ten groats; if she lose one groat, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently until she find it?9 And when she hath found it, call together her friends and neighbours, saying: Rejoice with me, because I have found the groat which I had lost.10 So I say to you, there shall be joy before the angels of God upon one sinner doing penance.
(Orat. xlv. 26.) But the piece of silver being found, He makes the heavenly powers partakers of the joy whom He made the ministers of His dispensation, and so it follows, And when she had found it, she calls together her friends and neighbours.
About CSB. A personal translation of the New Testament, rendered directly from the public-domain Greek in a literary style — not a scholarly critical edition, and not for liturgical or doctrinal authority. It is one reader's work, offered for enjoyment; where it matters, weigh it against an established translation. (Placeholder text — final wording to come.)