In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another, for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.6 Be you humbled therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in the time of visitation:7 Casting all your care upon him, for he hath care of you.8 Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.9 Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the same affliction befalls your brethren who are in the world.10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us into his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you, and confirm you, and establish you.11 To him be glory and empire for ever and ever. Amen.12 By Sylvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I think, I have written briefly: beseeching and testifying that this is the true grace of God, wherein you stand.13 The church that is in Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you: and so doth my son Mark.14 Salute one another with a holy kiss. Grace be to all you, who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.
Moreover, you were all distinguished by humility, and were in no respect puffed up with pride, but yielded obedience rather than extorted it, and were more willing to give than to receive. [Acts 20:35] Content with the provision which God had made for you, and carefully attending to His words, you were inwardly filled with His doctrine, and His sufferings were before your eyes. Thus a profound and abundant peace was given to you all, and you had an insatiable desire for doing good, while a full outpouring of the Holy Spirit was upon you all.
The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.3 For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.6 The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints.7 For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among the sons of God shall be like to God?16 Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance:17 And in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy justice they shall be exalted.
And he said to them: Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature.16 He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be condemned.17 And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name they shall cast out devils: they shall speak with new tongues.18 They shall take up serpents; and if they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them: they shall lay their hands upon the sick, and they shall recover.19 And the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God.20 But they going forth preached every where: the Lord working withal, and confirming the word with signs that followed.†
(ubi sup.) By which words He seems to shew clearly enough that the foregoing discourse was the last that He spake to them upon earth, though it does not appear to bind us down altogether to this opinion. For He does not say, After He had thus spoken unto them, wherefore it admits of being understood not as if that was the last discourse, but that the words which are here used, After the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received into heaven, might belong to all His other discourses. But since the arguments which we have used above make us rather suppose that this was the last time, therefore we ought to believe that after these words, together with those which are recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, our Lord ascended into heaven.
(Epist. cxcix. 12.) (Acts 1:8) But how was this preaching fulfilled by the Apostles, since there are many nations in which it has just begun, and others in which it has not yet begun to be fulfilled? Truly then this precept was not so laid upon the Apostles by our Lord, as though they alone to whom He then spoke were to fulfil so great a charge; in the same way as He says, Behold, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world, apparently to them alone; but who does not understand that the promise is made to the Catholic Church, which though some are dying, others are born, shall be here unto the end of the world?
(de Symbolo, 4) Let us not therefore understand this sitting as though He were placed there in human limbs, as if the Father sat on the left, the Son on the right, but by the right hand itself we understand the power which He as man received from God, that He should come to judge, who first had come to be judged. For by sitting we express habitation, as we say of a person, he sat himself down in that country for many years; in this way then believe that Christ dwells at the right hand of God the Father. For He is blessed and dwells in blessedness, which is called the right hand of the Father; for all is right hand there, since there is no misery. It goes on: And they went forth and preached every where, the Lord working with than, and confirming the word with signs and wonders.
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.)