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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
The first Epistle of St. Peter, though brief, contains much doctrineconcerning Faith, Hope, and Charity, with divers instructions to allpersons of what state or condition soever. The Apostle commandssubmission to rulers and superiors and exhorts all to the practice of avirtuous life in imitation, of Christ. This Epistle is written with suchapostolical dignity as to manifest the supreme authority with which itswriter, the Prince of the Apostles, had been vested by his Lord andMaster, Jesus Christ. He wrote it at Rome, which figuratively he callsBabylon, about fifteen years after our Lord's Ascension.
1 Peter Chapter 1
He gives thanks to God for the benefit of our being called to the truefaith and to eternal life, into which we are to enter by manytribulations. He exhorts to holiness of life, considering the holinessof God and our redemption by the blood of Christ.
1:1. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers dispersedthrough Pontus, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, elect,
1:2. According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto thesanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the bloodof Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied.
1:3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, whoaccording to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, bythe resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead:
1:4. Unto an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled and that cannotfade, reserved in heaven for you,
1:5. Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, readyto be revealed in the last time.
1:6. Wherein you shalt greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a littletime made sorrowful in divers temptations:
1:7. That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which istried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at theappearing of Jesus Christ.
1:8. Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now though you see himnot, you believe and, believing, shall rejoice with joy unspeakable andglorified;
1:9. Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
1:10. Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and diligentlysearched, who prophesied of the grace to come in you.
1:11. Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in themdid signify, when it foretold those sufferings that are in Christ andthe glories that should follow.
1:12. To whom it was revealed that, not to themselves but to you, theymini