Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to all the saints who are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus.2 Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with spiritual blessings in heavenly places, in Christ:4 As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.5 Who hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children through Jesus Christ unto himself: according to the purpose of his will:6 Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath graced us in his beloved son.7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins, according to the riches of his grace,8 Which hath superabounded in us in all wisdom and prudence,9 That he might make known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in him,10 In the dispensation of the fulness of times, to re-establish all things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him.
Blessed, then, are ye who are God-bearers, spirit-bearers, temple-bearers, bearers of holiness, adorned in all respects with the commandments of Jesus Christ, being "a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people," on whose account I rejoice exceedingly, and have had the privilege, by this Epistle, of conversing with "the saints which are at Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus." I rejoice, therefore, over you, that ye do not give heed to vanity, and love nothing according to the flesh, but according to God.
The psalm's verse numbering differs between the modern lectionary and the Douay-Rheims this library hosts, so the text isn't matched verse-for-verse here yet.
Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them.48 Truly you bear witness that you consent to the doings of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their sepulchres.49 For this cause also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute.50 That the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,†51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who was slain between the alter and the temple: Yea I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.52 Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you yourselves have not entered in, and those that were entering in, you have hindered.53 And as he was saying these things to them, the Pharisees and the lawyers began violently to urge him, and to oppress his mouth about many things,†54 Lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch something from his mouth, that they might accuse him.
(Apol. 1. de fuga sua.) Now if they kill, the death of the slain will cry out the louder against them; if they pursue, they send forth memorials of their iniquity, for flight makes the pursuit of the sufferers to redound to the great disgrace of the pursuers. For no one flees from the merciful and gentle, but rather from the cruel and evil-minded man. And therefore it follows, That the blood of all the prophets who have been slain from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation.
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