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Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
This Epistle is called Catholic or Universal, as formerly were also thetwo Epistles of St. Peter, the first of St. John and that of St. Jude,because they were not written to any peculiar people or particularperson, but to the faithful in general. It was written by the apostleSt. James, called the Less, who was also called the brother of our Lord,being his kinsman (for cousins german with the Hebrews were calledbrothers). He was the first Bishop of Jerusalem. In this Epistle are setforth many precepts appertaining to faith and morals; particularly, thatfaith without good works will not save a man and that true wisdom isgiven only from above. In the fifth chapter he publishes the sacramentof anointing the sick. It was written a short time before his martyrdom,about twenty-eight years after our Lord's Ascension.
James Chapter 1
The benefit of tribulations. Prayer with faith. God is the author of allgood, but not of evil. We must be slow to anger and not hearers only,but doers of the word. Of bridling the tongue and of pure religion.
1:1. James, the servant of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to thetwelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
1:2. My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into diverstemptations:
Into divers temptations… The word temptation, in this epistle, issometimes taken for trials by afflictions or persecutions, as in thisplace: at other times, it is to be understood, tempting, enticing, ordrawing others into sin.
1:3. Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience
1:4. And patience hath a perfect work: that you may be perfect andentire, failing in nothing.
1:5. But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to allmen abundantly and upbraideth not. And it shall be given him.
1:6. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth islike a wave of the sea, which is moved and carried about by the wind.
1:7. Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing ofthe Lord.
1:8. A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways.
1:9. But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation:
1:10. And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grassshall he pass away.
1:11. For the sun rose with a burning heat and parched the grass: andthe flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereofperished. So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
1:12. Blessed is the man that endureth te