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Deus meus, éripe me de manu peccatóris.
Save me, O God: * for the waters are come in even unto my soul.
I stick fast in the mire of the deep: * and there is no sure standing.
I am come into the depth of the sea: * and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.
I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse: * my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.
They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, * who hate me without cause.
My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: * then did I pay that which I took not away.
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; * and my offences are not hidden from thee.
Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, * the Lord of hosts.
Let them not be confounded on my account, * who seek thee, O God of Israel.
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; * shame hath covered my face.
I am become a stranger to my brethren, * and an alien to the sons of my mother.
For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: * and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
And I covered my soul in fasting: * and it was made a reproach to me.
And I made haircloth my garment: * and I became a byword to them.
They that sat in the gate spoke against me: * and they that drank wine made me their song.
But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; * for the time of thy good pleasure, O God.
In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, * in the truth of thy salvation.
Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: * deliver me from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep swallow me up: * and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; * look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
And turn not away thy face from thy servant: * for I am in trouble, hear me speedily.
Attend to my soul, and deliver it: * save me because of my enemies.
Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, * and my shame.
In thy sight are all they that afflict me; * my heart hath expected reproach and misery.
And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, * but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none.
And they gave me gall for my food, * and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Let their table become as a snare before them, * and a recompense, and a stumblingblock.
Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; * and their back bend thou down always.
Pour out thy indignation upon them: * and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Let their habitation be made desolate: * and let there be none to dwell in their tabernacles.
Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; * and they have added to the grief of my wounds.
Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: * and let them not come into thy justice.
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; * and with the just let them not be written.
I am poor and sorrowful: * thy salvation, O God, hath set me up.
I will praise the name of God with a canticle: * and I will magnify him with praise.
And it shall please God better than a young calf, * that bringeth forth horns and hoofs.
Let the poor see and rejoice: * seek ye God, and your soul shall live.
For the Lord hath heard the poor: * and hath not despised his prisoners.
Let the heavens and the earth praise him; * the sea, and every thing that creepeth therein.
For God will save Sion, * and the cities of Juda shall be built up.
And they shall dwell there, * and acquire it by inheritance.
And the seed of his servants shall possess it; * and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
Deus meus, éripe me de manu peccatóris.
Let them be turned backward * and put to confusion that desire my hurt.
O God, come to my assistance; * O Lord, make haste to help me.
Let them be confounded and ashamed * that seek my soul:
Let them be turned backward, and blush for shame * that desire evils to me:
Let them be presently turned away blushing for shame * that say to me: ’T is well, ’t is well.
Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; * and let such as love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified.
But I am needy and poor; * O God, help me.
Thou art my helper and my deliverer: * O Lord, make no delay.
Let them be turned backward * and put to confusion that desire my hurt.
Deliver me, my God, * out of the hand of the wicked.
In thee, O Lord, I have hoped, let me never be put to confusion: * deliver me in thy justice, and rescue me.
Incline thy ear unto me, * and save me.
Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a place of strength: * that thou mayst make me safe.
For thou art my firmament * and my refuge.
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the sinner, * and out of the hand of the transgressor of the law and of the unjust.
For thou art my patience, O Lord: * my hope, O Lord, from my youth.
By thee have I been confirmed from the womb: * from my mother’s womb thou art my protector.
Of thee shall I continually sing: * I am become unto many as a wonder, but thou art a strong helper.
Let my mouth be filled with praise, that I may sing thy glory; * thy greatness all the day long.
Cast me not off in the time of old age: * when my strength shall fail, do not thou forsake me.
For my enemies have spoken against me; * and they that watched my soul have consulted together,
Saying: God hath forsaken him: pursue and take him, * for there is none to deliver him.
O God, be not thou far from me: * O my God, make haste to my help.
Let them be confounded and come to nothing that detract my soul; * let them be covered with confusion and shame that seek my hurt.
But I will always hope; * and will add to all thy praise.
My mouth shall shew forth thy justice; * thy salvation all the day long.
Because I have not known learning, I will enter into the powers of the Lord: * O Lord, I will be mindful of thy justice alone.
Thou hast taught me, O God, from my youth: * and till now I will declare thy wonderful works.
And unto old age and grey hairs: * O God, forsake me not,
Until I shew forth thy arm * to all the generation that is to come:
Thy power, and thy justice, O God, even to the highest great things thou hast done: * O God, who is like to thee?
How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, * and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth:
Thou hast multiplied thy magnificence; * and turning to me thou hast comforted me.
For I will also confess to thee thy truth with the instruments of psaltery: * O God, I will sing to thee with the harp,
My lips shall greatly rejoice, when I shall sing to thee; * and my soul which thou hast redeemed.
Yea and my tongue shall meditate on thy justice all the day; * when they shall be confounded and put to shame that seek evils to me.
Deliver me, my God, * out of the hand of the wicked.
« Pater Noster » dicitur totum secreto.
Pater noster, qui es in cælis, sanctificétur nomen tuum: advéniat regnum tuum: fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo et in terra. Panem nostrum cotidiánum da nobis hódie: et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris: et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem: sed líbera nos a malo. Amen.
The Lord shall deliver * the needy from the strong: the poor also, that hath no helper.
Give to the king thy judgment, O God: * and to the king’s son thy justice:
To judge thy people with justice, * and thy poor with judgment.
Let the mountains receive peace for the people: * and the hills justice.
He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the children of the poor: * and he shall humble the oppressor.
And he shall continue with the sun, and before the moon, * throughout all generations.
He shall come down like rain upon the fleece; * and as showers falling gently upon the earth.
In his days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace, * till the moon be taken away.
And he shall rule from sea to sea, * and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
Before him the Ethiopians shall fall down: * and his enemies shall lick the ground.
The kings of Tharsis and the islands shall offer presents: * the kings of the Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts:
And all kings of the earth shall adore him: * all nations shall serve him.
For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: * and the needy that had no helper.
He shall spare the poor and needy: * and he shall save the souls of the poor.
He shall redeem their souls from usuries and iniquity: * and their names shall be honourable in his sight.
And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Arabia, for him they shall always adore: * they shall bless him all the day.
And there shall be a firmament on the earth on the tops of mountains, above Libanus shall the fruit thereof be exalted: * and they of the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth.
Let his name be blessed for evermore: * his name continueth before the sun.
And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: * all nations shall magnify him.
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, * who alone doth wonderful things.
And blessed be the name of his majesty for ever: * and the whole earth shall be filled with his majesty. So be it. So be it.
The Lord shall deliver * the needy from the strong: the poor also, that hath no helper.
The ungodly think * and speak wickedness: they speak loftily concerning oppression.
How good is God to Israel, * to them that are of a right heart!
But my feet were almost moved; * my steps had wellnigh slipped.
Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, * seeing the prosperity of sinners.
For there is no regard to their death, * nor is there strength in their stripes.
They are not in the labour of men: * neither shall they be scourged like other men.
Therefore pride hath held them fast: * they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.
Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: * they have passed into the affection of the heart.
They have thought and spoken wickedness: * they have spoken iniquity on high.
They have set their mouth against heaven: * and their tongue hath passed through the earth.
Therefore will my people return here * and full days shall be found in them.
And they said: How doth God know? * and is there knowledge in the most High?
Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world * they have obtained riches.
And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, * and washed my hands among the innocent.
And I have been scourged all the day; * and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.
If I said: I will speak thus; * behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.
I studied that I might know this thing, * it is a labour in my sight:
Until I go into the sanctuary of God, * and understand concerning their last ends.
But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: * when they were lifted up, thou hast cast them down.
How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: * they have perished by reason of their iniquity.
As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; * so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.
For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed: * and I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.
I am become as a beast before thee: * and I am always with thee.
Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, * and with thy glory thou hast received me.
For what have I in heaven? * and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?
For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: * thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.
For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: * thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.
But it is good for me to adhere to my God, * to put my hope in the Lord God:
That I may declare all thy praises, * in the gates of the daughter of Sion.
The ungodly think * and speak wickedness: they speak loftily concerning oppression.
Arise, O Lord, * and judge my cause.
O God, why hast thou cast us off unto the end: * why is thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of thy pasture?
Remember thy congregation, * which thou hast possessed from the beginning.
The sceptre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed: * mount Sion in which thou hast dwelt.
Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; * see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
And they that hate thee have made their boasts, * in the midst of thy solemnity.
They have set up their ensigns for signs, * and they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top.
As with axes in a wood of trees, they have cut down at once the gates thereof, * with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.
They have set fire to thy sanctuary: * they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth.
They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: * Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land.
Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: * and he will know us no more.
How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: * is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever?
Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand * out of the midst of thy bosom for ever?
But God is our king before ages: * he hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: * thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: * thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians.
Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: * thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers.
Thine is the day, and thine is the night: * thou hast made the morning light and the sun.
Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: * the summer and the spring were formed by thee.
Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: * and a foolish people hath provoked thy name.
Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: * and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor.
Have regard to thy covenant: * for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.
Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: * the poor and needy shall praise thy name.
Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: * remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.
Forget not the voices of thy enemies: * the pride of them that hate thee ascendeth continually.
Arise, O Lord, * and judge my cause.
« Pater Noster » dicitur totum secreto.
Pater noster, qui es in cælis, sanctificétur nomen tuum: advéniat regnum tuum: fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo et in terra. Panem nostrum cotidiánum da nobis hódie: et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris: et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem: sed líbera nos a malo. Amen.
Exáudi, Deus, oratiónem meam, et ne despéxeris deprecatiónem meam: inténde mihi, et exáudi me. Satagéntis, sollíciti, in tribulatióne pósiti, verba sunt ista. Orat multa pátiens, de malo liberári desíderans. Súperest ut videámus in quo malo sit: et cum dícere cœ́perit, agnoscámus ibi nos esse: ut communicáta tribulatióne, coniungámus oratiónem. Contristátus sum, inquit, in exercitatióne mea, et conturbátus sum. Ubi contristátus? ubi conturbátus? In exercitatióne mea, inquit. Hómines malos, quos pátitur, commemorátus est: eandémque passiónem malórum hóminum exercitatiónem suam dixit. Ne putétis gratis esse malos in hoc mundo, et nihil boni de illis ágere Deum. Omnis malus aut ídeo vivit, ut corrigátur; aut ídeo vivit, ut per illum bonus exerceátur.
Give ear to my prayer, O God, and despise not my supplication: attend unto me and hear me. These are the words of a man travailing, anxious, and troubled. He prayeth in the midst of much suffering, longing to be rid of his affliction. Our part is to see what that his affliction was, and when he hath told us, to acknowledge that we also suffer therefrom; that so, partaking in his trouble, we may take part also in his exercise, and am troubled. Wherein mourned he? Wherein was he troubled? He saith: In my exercise. In the next words he giveth us to know that his affliction was the oppression of the wicked, because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the wicked, and this suffering which came upon him at the hands of wicked men, he hath called his exercise. Think not that wicked men are in this world for nothing, or that God doth no good with them. Every wicked man liveth, either to repent, or to exercise the righteous.
Utinam ergo qui nos modo exércent, convertántur, et nobíscum exerceántur: tamen quámdiu ita sunt ut exérceant, non eos odérimus: quia in eo quod malus est quis eórum, utrum usque in finem perseveratúrus sit, ignorámus. Et plerúmque cum tibi vidéris odísse inimícum, fratrem odísti, et nescis. Diábolus, et ángeli eius in Scriptúris sanctis manifestáti sunt nobis, quod ad ignem ætérnum sint destináti. Ipsórum tantum desperánda est corréctio, contra quos habémus occúltam luctam: ad quam luctam nos armat Apóstolus, dicens: Non est nobis colluctátio advérsus carnem et sánguinem: id est, non advérsus hómines, quos vidétis, sed advérsus príncipes, et potestátes, et rectóres mundi, tenebrárum harum. Ne forte cum dixísset, mundi, intellégeres dǽmones esse rectóres cæli et terræ. Mundi dixit, tenebrárum harum: mundi dixit, amatórum mundi: mundi dixit, impiórum et iniquórum: mundi dixit, de quo dicit Evangélium: Et mundus eum non cognóvit.
Would to God that they which now exercise us were converted and exercised with us! Yet, while they are as they are, and exercise us, we will not hate them: for we know not of any one of them whether he will endure to the end in his sin. Yea, oftentimes, when thou deemest that thou hatest thine enemy, he whom thou hatest is thy brother, and thou knowest it not. The Holy Scriptures show us that the devil and his angels are already damned unto everlasting fire, and therefore of their repentance it behoveth us to despair; but of theirs only. These are they against whom we wrestle within; to the which wrestling the Apostle stirreth us up where he saith: We wrestle not against flesh and blood, (that is, not against men whom we see,) but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world. (Eph. vi. 12.) He saith not the rulers of this world, lest perchance thou shouldest deem that devils are the lords of heaven and earth; what he doth say is, rulers of the darkness of this world, of that world which they love who love the world, of that world wherein the ungodly and unrighteous do prosper, of that world, in fine, of which the Gospel saith: And the world knew Him not.
Quóniam vidi iniquitátem, et contradictiónem in civitáte. Atténde glóriam crucis ipsíus. Iam in fronte regum crux illa fixa est, cui inimíci insultavérunt. Efféctus probávit virtútem: dómuit orbem non ferro, sed ligno. Lignum crucis contuméliis dignum visum est inimícis, et ante ipsum lignum stantes caput agitábant, et dicébant: Si Fílius Dei est, descéndat de cruce. Extendébat ille manus suas ad pópulum non credéntem, et contradicéntem. Si enim iustus est, qui ex fide vivit; iníquus est, qui non habet fidem. Quod ergo hic ait, iniquitátem: perfídiam intéllege. Vidébat ergo Dóminus in civitáte iniquitátem et contradictiónem, et extendébat manus suas ad pópulum non credéntem et contradicéntem: et tamen et ipsos exspéctans dicébat: Pater, ignósce illis, quia nésciunt quid fáciunt.
We have seen iniquity and strife in the city. (10.) Behold, the glory of the Cross. That Cross which was the object of the insults of God's enemies, is established now above the brows of kings. The end hath shown the measure of its power: it hath conquered the world, not by the sword, but by its wood. The enemies of God thought the Cross a meet object of insult and ridicule, yea, they stood before it, wagging their heads and saying: If He be the Son of God, let Him come down from the Cross! (Matth. xxvii. 39, 40.) And He stretched forth His Hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. (Rom. x. 21.) If he is just which liveth by faith, (Rom. i. 17; Hab. ii. 4,) he is unjust that hath not faith. Therefore where is written iniquity we may understand unbelief. The Lord therefore saith that He saw iniquity and strife in the city, and that He stretched forth His Hands unto that disobedient and gainsaying people, and, disobedient and gainsaying as they were, He was hungry for their salvation, and said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. (Luke xxiii. 34.)
I said unto the wicked: * Speak not wickedness against God.
We will praise thee, O God: * we will praise, and we will call upon thy name.
We will relate thy wondrous works: * when I shall take a time, I will judge justices.
The earth is melted, and all that dwell therein: * I have established the pillars thereof.
I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: * and to the sinners: Lift not up the horn.
Lift not up your horn on high: * speak not iniquity against God.
For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert hills: * for God is the judge.
One he putteth down, and another he lifteth up: * for in the hand of the Lord there is a cup of strong wine full of mixture.
And he hath poured it out from this to that: but the dregs thereof are not emptied: * all the sinners of the earth shall drink.
But I will declare for ever: * I will sing to the God of Jacob.
And I will break all the horns of sinners: * but the horns of the just shall be exalted.
I said unto the wicked: * Speak not wickedness against God.
The earth trembled * and was still, when God arose to judgment.
In Judea God is known: * his name is great in Israel.
And his place is in peace: * and his abode in Sion:
There hath he broken the powers of bows, * the shield, the sword, and the battle.
Thou enlightenest wonderfully from the everlasting hills. * All the foolish of heart were troubled.
They have slept their sleep; * and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands.
At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, * they have all slumbered that mounted on horseback.
Thou art terrible, and who shall resist thee? * from that time thy wrath.
Thou hast caused judgment to be heard from heaven: * the earth trembled and was still,
When God arose in judgment, * to save all the meek of the earth.
For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: * and the remainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee.
Vow ye, and pay to the Lord your God: * all you that are round about him bring presents.
To him that is terrible, even to him who taketh away the spirit of princes: * to the terrible with the kings of the earth.
The earth trembled * and was still, when God arose to judgment.
In the day of my trouble * I sought God with my hands.
I cried to the Lord with my voice; * to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.
In the day of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to him in the night, * and I was not deceived.
My soul refused to be comforted: * I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my spirit swooned away.
My eyes prevented the watches: * I was troubled, and I spoke not.
I thought upon the days of old: * and I had in my mind the eternal years.
And I meditated in the night with my own heart: * and I was exercised and I swept my spirit.
Will God then cast off for ever? * or will he never be more favourable again?
Or will he cut off his mercy for ever, * from generation to generation?
Or will God forget to shew mercy? * or will he in his anger shut up his mercies?
And I said, Now have I begun: * this is the change of the right hand of the most High.
I remembered the works of the Lord: * for I will be mindful of thy wonders from the beginning.
And I will meditate on all thy works: * and will be employed in thy inventions.
Thy way, O God, is in the holy place: who is the great God like our God? * Thou art the God that dost wonders.
Thou hast made thy power known among the nations: * with thy arm thou hast redeemed thy people the children of Jacob and of Joseph.
The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee: * and they were afraid, and the depths were troubled.
Great was the noise of the waters: * the clouds sent out a sound.
For thy arrows pass: * the voice of thy thunder in a wheel.
Thy lightnings enlightened the world: * the earth shook and trembled.
Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters: * and thy footsteps shall not be known.
Thou hast conducted thy people like sheep, * by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
In the day of my trouble * I sought God with my hands.
« Pater Noster » dicitur totum secreto.
Pater noster, qui es in cælis, sanctificétur nomen tuum: advéniat regnum tuum: fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo et in terra. Panem nostrum cotidiánum da nobis hódie: et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris: et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem: sed líbera nos a malo. Amen.
Hoc autem præcípio: non laudans quod non in mélius, sed in detérius convenítis. Primum quidem conveniéntibus vobis in Ecclésiam, áudio scissúras esse inter vos, et ex parte credo. Nam opórtet et hǽreses esse, ut et qui probáti sunt, manifésti fiant in vobis. Conveniéntibus ergo vobis in unum, iam non est Domínicam cenam manducáre. Unusquísque enim suam cenam præsúmit ad manducándum. Et álius quidem ésurit, álius autem ébrius est. Numquid domos non habétis ad manducándum et bibéndum? aut Ecclésiam Dei contémnitis, et confúnditis eos, qui non habent? Quid dicam vobis? Laudo vos? In hoc non laudo.
Now this I ordain: not praising you, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse. For first of all I hear that when you come together in the church, there are schisms among you; and in part I believe it. For there must be also heresies: that they also, who are approved, may be made manifest among you. When you come therefore together into one place, it is not now to eat the Lord's supper. For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry and another is drunk. What, have you not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God; and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? Do I praise you? In this I praise you not.
Ego enim accépi a Dómino quod et trádidi vobis, quóniam Dóminus Iesus, in qua nocte tradebátur, accépit panem, Et grátias agens fregit, et dixit: Accípite, et manducáte: hoc est corpus meum, quod pro vobis tradétur: hoc fácite in meam commemoratiónem. Simíliter et cálicem, postquam cœnávit, dicens: Hic calix novum testaméntum est in meo sánguine: hoc fácite, quotiescúmque bibétis, in meam commemoratiónem. Quotiescúmque enim manducábitis panem hunc, et cálicem bibétis, mortem Dómini annuntiábitis donec véniat.
For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread. And giving thanks, broke, and said: Take ye, and eat: this is my body, which shall be delivered for you: this do for the commemoration of me. In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of me. For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall show the death of the Lord, until he come.
Itaque quicúmque manducáverit panem hunc, vel bíberit cálicem Dómini indígne, reus erit córporis et sánguinis Dómini. Probet autem seípsum homo: et sic de pane illo edat, et de cálice bibat. Qui enim mandúcat et bibit indígne, iudícium sibi mandúcat et bibit, non diiúdicans corpus Dómini. Ideo inter vos multi infírmi et imbecílles, et dórmiunt multi. Quod, si nosmetípsos diiudicarémus, non útique iudicarémur. Dum iudicámur autem, a Dómino corrípimur, ut non cum hoc mundo damnémur. Itaque, fratres mei, cum convenítis ad manducándum, ínvicem exspectáte. Si quis ésurit, domi mandúcet: ut non in iudícium conveniátis. Cétera autem, cum vénero, dispónam.
Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord. Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you, and many sleep. But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world. Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. If any man be hungry, let him eat at home; that you come not together unto judgment. And the rest I will set in order, when I come.