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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
This Book, which, from the first ages, hath been called, THE ACTS OF THEAPOSTLES, is not to be considered as a history of what was done by allthe Apostles, who were dispersed into different nations; but only ashort view of the first establishment of the Christian Church. A part ofthe preaching and action of St. Peter are related in the first twelvechapters; and a particular account of St. Paul's apostolical labours inthe subsequent chapters. It was written by St. Luke the Evangelist, andthe original in Greek. Its history commences from the Ascension ofChrist our Lord and ends in the year sixty-three, being a brief accountof the Church for the space of about thirty years.
Acts Chapter 1
The ascension of Christ. Matthias is chosen in place of Judas.
1:1. The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all things which Jesusbegan to do and to teach,
1:2. Until the day on which, giving commandments by the Holy Ghost tothe apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up.
1:3. To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion, by manyproofs, for forty days appearing to them, and speaking of the kingdom ofGod.
1:4. And eating together with them, he commanded them, that they shouldnot depart from Jerusalem, but should wait for the promise of theFather, which you have heard (saith he) by my mouth.
1:5. For John indeed baptized with water: but you shall be baptized withthe Holy Ghost, not many days hence.
1:6. They therefore who were come together, asked him, saying: Lord,wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom of Israel?
1:7. But he said to them: It is not for you to know the time or moments,which the Father hath put in his own power:
1:8. But you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you,and you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, andSamaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth.
1:9. And when he had said these things, while they looked on, he wasraised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight.
1:10. And while they were beholding him going up to heaven, behold twomen stood by them in white garments.
1:11. Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up toheaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so comeas you have seen him going into heaven.
1:12. Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount that is calledOlivet, which is nigh Jerusalem, within a sabbath day's journey.
1:13. And when they were come in, they went up into an upp