This eBook was produced by David Widger from etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia and Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome. THE HOLY BIBLE 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 with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner A.D. 1749-1752 THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE EPHESIANS Ephesus was the capital of Lesser Asia, and celebrated for the temple of Diana, to which the most part of the people of the East went frequently to worship. But St. Paul having preached the Gospel there, for two years the first time and afterwards for about a year, converted many. He wrote this Epistle to them when he was a prisoner in Rome; and sent it by Tychicus. He admonishes them to hold firmly the faith which they had received and warns them, and also those of the neighbouring cities, against the sophistry of philosophers and doctrine of false teachers who were come among them. The matters of faith contained in this Epistle are exceedingly 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 of all the church. 1:1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to all the saints 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 Lord Jesus Christ. 1:3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed 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 we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity. 1:5. Who hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children through Jesus 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 graced us, in his beloved son. 1:7. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins, 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, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in him, 1:10. In the dispensation of the fulness of times, to re-establish all things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him. 1:11. In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will. 1:12. That we may be unto the praise of his glory: we who before hoped in Christ: