Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. XVII.
By a parable of two eagles (6. and of a vinyard) is prophecied, 9. that
Sedecias being made king by Nabuchodonosor, 15. and rebelling, shal be
caried captiue, and dye in Babylon: 22. with prophecie, that God wil
plant, and propagate the Church of Christ.
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1 And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:
2 Sonne of man, propose a darke speach, and tel a parable
to the house of Israel,
3 and thou shalt say: Thus saith
our Lord God: A great eagle with great winges, with a long
reach of members, ful of fethers, and of varietie, came to Libanus,
and tooke the marow of the ceder. note
4 He plucked
away the top of the boughes therof: and transported it into
the Land of Chanaan, in the citie of merchants he did put it.
5 And he tooke of the sede of the land, & put it in the ground
for sede, that it might fasten the roote ouer manie waters:
he planted it in the ouermostpart of the earth.
6 And when
it had budded, it grew into a broad spredding vine of low stature,
the boughes therof looking toward it: and the rootes
therof were vnder it. It became a vine then, and fructified
into branches, and put forth shootes.
7 And there was made
an other great egle, with great winges, and manie fethers:
& behold this vine as it were spredding her rootes towards it,
streched forth her branches to it, that she might water it from
the beds of her spring.
8 In a good ground vpon manie waters
it was planted, that it might bring forth branches, and beare
fruite, that it might be into a great vine.
9 Say: Thus saith
our Lord God: Shal it prosper then? shal he not plucke vp the
rootes therof, and strippe of the fruites therof, and drie vp al
the branches of the spring therof, and it shal wither: and not
in a great arme, nor in much people, to plucke it vp by the
roote?
10 Behold it is planted: shal it prosper then? shal it not
be dried when the burning winde shal touch it, and wither
in the beds of the spring thereof?
11 And the word of our
Lord was made to me saying:
12 Say to the exasperating house:
Know you not what these thinges doe signifie? Say: note Behold
the king of Babylon cometh into Ierusalem: and he shal take
the king and the princes therof, and shal bring them to himselfe
into Babylon.
13 And he shal take of note the sede of the
kingdom, and shal make a couenant with it, and shal take an
oath of it. Yea and he shal take away the strong of the land,
14 that it may be a lowe kingdom, and not be eleuated, but
keepe his couenant, & obserue it.
15 Who reuolting from him
sent messengers to Ægypt, that it would geue him horses, and
much people. What, shal he prosper, or gette saluation that
hath done these thinges? and he that broke the couenant, shal
he escape?
16 Liue I, saith our Lord God: that in the place of
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the king that made him king, whose oath he made frustrate,
and brake the couenant, that he had with him, note in the middes
of Babylon shal he dye.
17 And not in a great armie, nor in
much people shal Pharao make battel agaynst him: in the casting
vp of a ramper, and in the building of bulworkes, to kil
manie soules.
18 For he had despised the oath, that he might
breake the couenant, and behold he gaue his hand, and when
he hath done al these thinges, he shal not escape.
19 Therfore
thus saith our Lord God: Liue I, that the oath which he hath
despised, & the couenant, that he transgressed, I wil lay on his
head.
20 And I wil spread my nette ouer him, and he shal be
taken in my nette: and I wil bring him into Babylon, and wil
iudge him there in the preuerication, wherby he hath despised
me.
21 And al his fugitiues with al their troupe shal fal by the
sword: and the residue shal be dispersed into euerie wind: and
you shal know that I the Lord haue spoken.
22 Thus saith our
Lord God: And note I wil take of the marow of the high ceder,
& wil set it: of the toppe of the boughes therof the tender one
I wil strippe of, and wil plant it vpon a mountaine high and
eminent.
23 On the high mountaines of Israel wil I plant it,
and it shal shoote forth into a budde, and shal yelde fruite, and
it shal be into a great ceder: and al birdes, and euerie foule shal
dwel vnder the shadow of the boughes therof, and shal there
make their nest.
24 And al the trees of the countrie shal know,
that I the Lord haue humbled the high tree, & exalted the low
tree: and haue dried the greene tree, and haue caused the drie
tree to spring. I the Lord haue spoken, and haue done it.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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