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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
ABDIAS, whose name is interpreted THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, is believedto have prophesied about the same time as OSEE, JOEL, and AMOS: thoughsome of the Hebrews, who believe him to be the same with ACHAB'ssteward, make him much more ancient. His prophecy is the shortest of anyin number of words, but yields to none, says ST. JEROME, in thesublimity of mysteries. It contains but one chapter.
Abdias Chapter 1
The destruction of Edom for their pride: and the wrongs they did to
Jacob: the salvation and victory of Israel.
1:1. The vision of Abdias. Thus saith the Lord God to Edom: We haveheard a rumour from the Lord, and he hath sent an ambassador to thenations: Arise, and let us rise up to battle against him.
1:2. Behold I have made thee small among the nations: thou art exceedingcontemptible.
1:3. The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, who dwellest in theclefts of the rocks, and settest up thy throne on high: who sayest inthy heart: Who shall bring me down to the ground?
1:4. Though thou be exalted as an eagle, and though thou set thy nestamong the stars: thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.
1:5. If thieves had gone in to thee, if robbers by night, how wouldstthou have held thy peace? would they not have stolen till they hadenough? if the grapegatherers had come in to thee, would they not haveleft thee at the least a cluster?
1:6. How have they searched Esau, how have they sought out his hiddenthings?
1:7. They have sent thee out even to the border: all the men of thyconfederacy have deceived thee: the men of thy peace have prevailedagainst thee: they that eat with thee shall lay snares under thee: thereis no wisdom in him.
1:8. Shall not I in that day, saith the Lord, destroy the wise out ofEdom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?
1:9. And thy valiant men of the south shall be afraid, that man may becut off from the mount of Esau.
1:10. For the slaughter, and for the iniquity against thy brother Jacob,confusion shall cover thee, and thou shalt perish for ever.
1:11. In the day when thou stoodest against him, when strangers carriedaway his army captive, and foreigners entered into his gates, and castlots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of them.
1:12. But thou shalt not look on in the day of thy brother, in the dayof his leaving his country: and thou shalt not rejoice over the childrenof Juda, in the day of their destruction: and thou shalt not magnify thymouth in the day of distress.
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