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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
Ephesus was the capital of Lesser Asia, and celebrated for the temple ofDiana, to which the most part of the people of the East went frequentlyto worship. But St. Paul having preached the Gospel there, for two yearsthe first time and afterwards for about a year, converted many. He wrotethis Epistle to them when he was a prisoner in Rome; and sent it byTychicus. He admonishes them to hold firmly the faith which they hadreceived and warns them, and also those of the neighbouring cities,against the sophistry of philosophers and doctrine of false teachers whowere come among them. The matters of faith contained in this Epistle areexceedingly sublime, and consequently very difficult to be understood.It was written about twenty-nine years after our Lord's Ascension.
Ephesians Chapter 1
The great blessings we have received through Christ. He is the head ofall the church.
1:1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to all thesaints who are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus.
1:2. Grace be to you and peace, from God the Father and from the LordJesus Christ.
1:3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hathblessed us with spiritual blessings in heavenly places, in Christ:
In heavenly places… or, in heavenly things. In coelestibus.
1:4. As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that weshould be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.
1:5. Who hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children throughJesus Christ unto himself: according to the purpose of his will:
1:6. Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath gracedus, in his beloved son.
1:7. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission ofsins, according to the riches of his, grace,
1:8. Which hath superabounded in us, in all wisdom and prudence,
1:9. That he might make known unto us the mystery of his will, accordingto his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in him,
1:10. In the dispensation of the fulness of times, to re-establish allthings in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him.
1:11. In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated accordingto the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel ofhis will.
1:12. That we may be unto the praise of his glory: we who before hopedin Christ:
1:13. In whom you also, after you had heard the word of truth (thegospel of your salvation), in whom also believing