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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
St. John the Apostle and Evangelist was the son of Zebedee and Salome,brother to James the Greater. He was called the Beloved disciple ofChrist and stood by at his Crucifixion. He wrote the Gospel after theother Evangelists, about sixty-three years after our Lord's Ascension.Many things that they had omitted were supplied by him. The original waswritten in Greek; and by the Greeks he is titled: The Divine, St. Jeromerelates that, when he was earnestly requested by the brethren to writethe Gospel, he answered he would do it, if by ordering a common fast,they would all put up their prayers together to the Almighty God; whichbeing ended replenished with the clearest and fullest revelation comingfrom Heaven, he burst forth into that preface: IN THE BEGINNING WAS THEWORD.
John Chapter 1
The divinity and incarnation of Christ. John bears witness of him. Hebegins to call his disciples.
1:1. In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God: and theWord was God.
1:2. The same was in the beginning with God.
1:3. All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing thatwas made.
1:4. In him was life: and the life was the light of men.
1:5. And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did notcomprehend it.
1:6. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
1:7. This man came for a witness, to give testimony of the light, thatall men might believe through him.
1:8. He was not the light, but was to give testimony of the light.
1:9. That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that comethinto this world.
1:10. He was in the world: and the world was made by him: and the worldknew him not.
1:11. He came unto his own: and his own received him not.
1:12. But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made thesons of God, to them that believe in his name.
1:13. Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor ofthe will of man, but of God.
1:14. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we saw hisglory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father), full ofgrace and truth.
1:15. John beareth witness of him and crieth out, saying: This was he ofwhom I spoke: He that shall come after me is preferred before me:because he was before me.
1:16. And of his fulness we all have received: and grace for grace.
1:17. For the law was given by Moses: