The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 51: Acts: The Challoner Revision — John Shaqi
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 51: Acts: The Challoner Revision
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 51: Acts: The Challoner Revision
Bible. Acts
2:7. And they were all amazed, and wondered, saying: Behold, are not all
these that speak Galilean?
2:8. And how have we heard, every man our own tongue wherein we were
born?
2:9. Parthians and Medes and Elamites and inhabitants of Mesopotamia,
Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
2:10. Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene,
and strangers of Rome,
2:11. Jews also, and proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians: we have heard
them speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.
2:12. And they were all astonished, and wondered, saying one to another:
What meaneth this?
2:13. But others mocking, said: These men are full of new wine.
2:14. But Peter standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and
spoke to them: Ye men of Judea, and all you that dwell in Jerusalem, be
this known to you and with your ears receive my words.
2:15. For these are not drunk, as you suppose, seeing it is but the
third hour of the day:
2:16. But this is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel:
2:17. And it shall come to pass, in the last days, (saith the Lord), I
will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy: and your young men shall see visions, and your
old men shall dream dreams.
2:18. And upon my servants indeed and upon my handmaids will I pour out
in those days of my spirit: and they shall prophesy.
2:19. And I will shew wonders in the heaven above, and signs on the
earth beneath: blood and fire, and vapour of smoke.
2:20. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood,
before the great and manifest day of the Lord to come.
2:21. And it shalt come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name
of the Lord shall be saved.
2:22. Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man
approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God
did by him, in the midst of you, as you also know:
2:23. This same being delivered up, by the determinate counsel and
foreknowledge of God, you by the hands of wicked men have crucified and
slain.
By the determinate, etc... God delivered up his Son; and his Son
delivered up himself, for the love of us, and for the sake of our
salvation; and so Christ's being delivered up was holy, and was God's
own determination. But they who betrayed and crucified him, did
wickedly, following therein their own malice and the instigation of the
devil; not the will and determination of God, who was by no means the
author of their wickedness; though he permitted it; because he could,
and did draw out of it so great a good, viz., the salvation of man.
2:24. Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the sorrows of hell, as it
was impossible that he should be holden by it.
Having loosed the sorrow, etc... Having overcome the grievous pains of
death and all the power of hell.
2:25. For David saith concerning him: I foresaw the Lord before my face:
because he is at my right hand, that I may not be moved.
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