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Simon Petrus, servus et apostolus Jesu Christi, iis qui coæqualem nobiscum sortiti sunt fidem in justitia Dei nostri, et Salvatoris Jesu Christi . |
Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained equal faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ. |
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Gratia vobis, et pax adimpleatur in cognitione Dei, et Christi Jesu Domini nostri : |
Grace to you and peace be accomplished in the knowledge of God and of Christ Jesus our Lord: |
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Quomodo omnia nobis divinæ virtutis suæ, quæ ad vitam et pietatem donata sunt, per cognitionem ejus, qui vocavit nos propria gloria, et virtute, |
As all things of his divine power which appertain to life and godliness, are given us, through the knowledge of him who hath called us by his own proper glory and virtue. |
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per quem maxima, et pretiosa nobis promissa donavit : ut per hæc efficiamini divinæ consortes naturæ : fugientes ejus, quæ in mundo est, concupiscentiæ corruptionem. |
By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these you may be made partakers of the divine nature: flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world. |
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Vos autem curam omnem subinferentes, ministrate in fide vestra virtutem, in virtute autem scientiam, |
And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue; and in virtue, knowledge; |
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in scientia autem abstinentiam, in abstinentia autem patientiam, in patientia autem pietatem, |
And in knowledge, abstinence; and in abstinence, patience; and in patience, godliness; |
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in pietate autem amorem fraternitatis, in amore autem fraternitatis caritatem. |
And in godliness, love of brotherhood; and in love of brotherhood, charity. |
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Hæc enim si vobiscum adsint, et superent, non vacuos nec sine fructu vos constituent in Domini nostri Jesu Christi cognitione. |
For if these things be with you and abound, they will make you to be neither empty nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
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Cui enim non præsto sunt hæc, cæcus est, et manu tentans, oblivionem accipiens purgationis veterum suorum delictorum. |
For he that hath not these things with him, is blind, and groping, having forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. |
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Quapropter fratres, magis satagite ut per bona opera certam vestram vocationem, et electionem faciatis : hæc enim facientes, non peccabitis aliquando. |
Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time. |
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Sic enim abundanter ministrabitur vobis introitus in æternum regnum Domini nostri et Salvatoris Jesu Christi. |
For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. |
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Propter quod incipiam vos semper commonere de his : et quidem scientes et confirmatos vos in præsenti veritate. |
For which cause I will begin to put you always in remembrance of these things: though indeed you know them, and are confirmed in the present truth. |
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Justum autem arbitror quamdiu sum in hoc tabernaculo, suscitare vos in commonitione : |
But I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance. |
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certus quod velox est depositio tabernaculi mei secundum quod et Dominus noster Jesus Christus significavit mihi. |
Being assured that the laying away of this my tabernacle is at hand, according as our Lord Jesus Christ also hath signified to me. |
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Dabo autem operam et frequenter habere vos post obitum meum, ut horum memoriam faciatis. |
And I will endeavour, that you frequently have after my decease, whereby you may keep a memory of these things. |
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Non enim doctas fabulas secuto notam fecimus vobis Domini nostri Jesu Christi virtutem et præsentiam : sed speculatores facti illius magnitudinis. |
For we have not by following artificial fables, made known to you the power, and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ; but we were eyewitnesses of his greatness. |
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Accipiens enim a Deo Patre honorem et gloriam, voce delapsa ad eum hujuscemodi a magnifica gloria : Hic est Filius meus dilectus, in quo mihi complacui, ipsum audite. |
For he received from God the Father, honour and glory: this voice coming down to him from the excellent glory: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. |
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Et hanc vocem nos audivimus de cælo allatam, cum essemus cum ipso in monte sancto. |
And this voice we heard brought from heaven, when we were with him in the holy mount. |
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Et habemus firmiorem propheticum sermonem : cui benefacitis attendentes quasi lucernæ lucenti in caliginoso donec dies elucescat, et lucifer oriatur in cordibus vestris : |
And we have the more firm prophetical word: whereunto you do well to attend, as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: |
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hoc primum intelligentes quod omnis prophetia Scripturæ propria interpretatione non fit. |
Understanding this first, that no prophecy of scripture is made by private interpretation. |
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Non enim voluntate humana allata est aliquando prophetia : sed Spiritu Sancto inspirati, locuti sunt sancti Dei homines. |
For prophecy came not by the will of man at any time: but the holy men of God spoke, inspired by the Holy Ghost. |
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Fuerunt vero et pseudoprophetæ in populo, sicut et in vobis erunt magistri mendaces, qui introducent sectas perditionis : et eum qui emit eos, Dominum negant, superducentes sibi celerem perditionem. |
But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be among you lying teachers, who shall bring in sects of perdition, and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction. |
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Et multi sequentur eorum luxurias, per quos via veritatis blasphemabitur : |
And many shall follow their riotousnesses, through whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. |
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et in avaritia fictis verbis de vobis negotiabuntur : quibus judicium jam olim non cessat : et perditio eorum non dormitat. |
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their perdition slumbereth not. |
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Si enim Deus angelis peccantibus non pepercit, sed rudentibus inferni detractos in tartarum tradidit cruciandos, in judicium reservari. |
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them, drawn down by infernal ropes to the lower hell, unto torments, to be reserved unto judgment: |
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Et originali mundo non pepercit, sed octavum Noë justitiæ præconem custodivit, diluvium mundo impiorum inducens. |
And spared not the original world, but preserved Noe, the eighth person, the preacher of justice, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly. |
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Et civitates Sodomorum et Gomorrhæorum in cinerem redigens, eversione damnavit : exemplum eorum, qui impie acturi sunt, ponens : |
And reducing the cities of the Sodomites, and of the Gomorrhites, into ashes, condemned them to be overthrown, making them an example to those that should after act wickedly. |
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et justum Lot oppressum a nefandorum injuria, ac luxuriosa conversatione eripuit : |
And delivered just Lot, oppressed by the injustice and lewd conversation of the wicked. |
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aspectu enim, et auditu justus erat : habitans apud eos, qui de die in diem animam justam iniquis operibus cruciabant. |
For in sight and hearing he was just: dwelling among them, who from day to day vexed the just soul with unjust works. |
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Novit Dominus pios de tentatione eripere : iniquos vero in diem judicii reservare cruciandos. |
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented. |
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Magis autem eos, qui post carnem in concupiscentia immunditiæ ambulant, dominationemque contemnunt, audaces, sibi placentes, sectas non metuunt introducere blasphemantes : |
And especially them who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government, audacious, self willed, they fear not to bring in sects, blaspheming. |
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ubi angeli fortitudine, et virtute cum sint majores, non portant adversum se execrabile judicium. |
Whereas angels who are greater in strength and power, bring not against themselves a railing judgment. |
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Hi vero velut irrationabilia pecora, naturaliter in captionem, et in perniciem in his quæ ignorant blasphemantes in corruptione sua peribunt, |
But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption, |
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percipientes mercedem injustitiæ, voluptatem existimantes diei delicias : coinquinationes, et maculæ deliciis affluentes, in conviviis suis luxuriantes vobiscum, |
Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, rioting in their feasts with you: |
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oculos habentes plenos adulterii, et incessabilis delicti. Pellicientes animas instabiles, cor exercitatum avaritia habentes, maledictionis filii : |
Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that ceaseth not: alluring unstable souls, having their heart exercised with covetousness, children of malediction: |
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derelinquentes rectam viam erraverunt, secuti viam Balaam ex Bosor, qui mercedem iniquitatis amavit : |
Leaving the right way they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam of Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity, |
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correptionem vero habuit suæ vesaniæ : subjugale mutum animal, hominis voce loquens, prohibuit prophetæ insipientiam. |
But had a check of his madness, the dumb beast used to the yoke, which speaking with man’s voice, forbade the folly of the prophet. |
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Hi sunt fontes sine aqua, et nebulæ turbinibus exagitatæ, quibus caligo tenebrarum reservatur. |
These are fountains without water, and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved. |
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Superba enim vanitatis loquentes, pelliciunt in desideriis carnis luxuriæ eos, qui paululum effugiunt, qui in errore conversantur : |
For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness, those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error: |
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libertatem illis promittentes, cum ipsi servi sint corruptionem : a quo enim quis superatus est, hujus et servus est. |
Promising them liberty, whereas they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom a man is overcome, of the same also he is the slave. |
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Si enim refugientes coinquinationes mundi in cognitione Domini nostri, et Salvatoris Jesu Christi, his rursus implicatis superantur : facta sunt eis posteriora deteriora prioribus. |
For if, flying from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled in them and overcome: their latter state is become unto them worse than the former. |
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Melius enim erat illis non cognoscere viam justitiæ, quam post agnitionem, retrorsum converti ab eo, quod illis traditum est, sancto mandato. |
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of justice, than after they have known it, to turn back from that holy commandment which was delivered to them. |
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Contigit enim eis illud veri proverbii : Canis reversus ad suum vomitum : et, Sus lota in volutabro luti. |
For, that of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog is returned to his vomit: and, The sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire. |
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Hanc ecce vobis, carissimi, secundam scribo epistolam, in quibus vestram excito in commonitione sinceram mentem : |
Behold this second epistle I write to you, my dearly beloved, in which I stir up by way of admonition your sincere mind: |
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ut memores sitis eorum, quæ prædixi, verborum, a sanctis prophetis et apostolorum vestrorum, præceptorum Domini et Salvatoris. |
That you may be mindful of those words which I told you before from the holy prophets, and of your apostles, of the precepts of the Lord and Saviour. |
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Hoc primum scientes, quod venient in novissimis diebus in deceptione illusores, juxta proprias concupiscentias ambulantes, |
Knowing this first, that in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts, |
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dicentes : Ubi est promissio, aut adventus ejus ? ex quo enim patres dormierunt, omnia sic perseverant ab initio creaturæ. |
Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? for since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. |
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Latet enim eos hoc volentes, quod cæli erant prius, et terra de aqua, et per aquam consistens Dei verbo : |
For this they are wilfully ignorant of, that the heavens were before, and the earth out of water, and through water, consisting by the word of God. |
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per quæ, ille tunc mundus aqua inundatus, periit. |
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. |
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Cæli autem, qui nunc sunt, et terra eodem verbo repositi sunt, igni reservati in diem judicii, et perditionis impiorum hominum. |
But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of the ungodly men. |
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Unum vero hoc non lateat vos, carissimi, quia unus dies apud Dominum sicut mille anni, et mille anni sicut dies unus. |
But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. |
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Non tardat Dominus promissionem suam, sicut quidam existimant : sed patienter agit propter vos, nolens aliquos perire, sed omnes ad pœnitentiam reverti. |
The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance. |
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Adveniet autem dies Domini ut fur : in quo cæli magno impetu transient, elementa vero calore solventur, terra autem et quæ in ipsa sunt opera, exurentur. |
But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence, and the elements shall be melted with heat, and the earth and the works which are in it, shall be burnt up. |
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Cum igitur hæc omnia dissolvenda sunt, quales oportet vos esse in sanctis conversationibus, et pietatibus, |
Seeing then that all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of people ought you to be in holy conversation and godliness? |
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exspectantes, et properantes in adventum diei Domini, per quem cæli ardentes solventur, et elementa ignis ardore tabescent ? |
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of the Lord, by which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with the burning heat? |
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Novos vero cælos, et novam terram secundum promissa ipsius exspectamus, in quibus justitia habitat. |
But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth. |
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Propter quod, carissimi, hæc exspectantes, satagite immaculati, et inviolati ei inveniri in pace : |
Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace. |
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et Domini nostri longanimitatem, salutem arbitremini : sicut et carissimus frater noster Paulus secundum datam sibi sapientiam scripsit vobis, |
And account the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation; as also our most dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, hath written to you: |
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sicut et omnibus epistolis, loquens in eis de his in quibus sunt quædam difficilia intellectu, quæ indocti et instabiles depravant, sicut et ceteras Scripturas, ad suam ipsorum perditionem. |
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction. |
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Vos igitur fratres, præscientes custodite, ne insipientium errore traducti excidatis a propria firmitate : |
You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness. |
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crescite vero in gratia, et in cognitione Domini nostri, et Salvatoris Jesu Christi. Ipsi gloria et nunc, et in diem æternitatis. Amen. |
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of eternity. Amen. |
Mission of Salvation 