1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you . 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. 9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door. 10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. 11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. 12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation. 13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. 14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. 19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; 20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
1 age nunc divites
plorate ululantes in miseriis quae advenient vobis
2 divitiae vestrae putrefactae sunt
et vestimenta vestra a tineis comesta sunt
3 aurum et argentum vestrum eruginavit
et erugo eorum in testimonium vobis erit
et manducabit carnes vestras sicut ignis
thesaurizastis in novissimis diebus
4 ecce merces operariorum qui messuerunt regiones vestras
qui fraudatus est a vobis clamat
et clamor ipsorum in aures Domini Sabaoth introiit
5 epulati estis super terram
et in luxuriis enutristis corda vestra
in die occisionis
6 addixistis
occidistis iustum non resistit vobis
7 patientes igitur estote fratres usque ad adventum Domini
ecce agricola expectat pretiosum fructum terrae patienter ferens
donec accipiat temporivum et serotinum
8 patientes estote et vos confirmate corda
vestra
quoniam adventus Domini adpropinquavit
9 nolite ingemescere fratres in alterutrum ut non iudicemini
ecce iudex ante ianuam adsistit
10 exemplum accipite fratres laboris et patientiae
prophetas qui locuti sunt in nomine Domini
11 ecce beatificamus qui sustinuerunt
sufferentiam Iob audistis et finem Domini vidistis
quoniam misericors est Dominus et miserator
12 ante omnia autem fratres mei
nolite iurare neque per caelum neque per terram
neque aliud quodcumque iuramentum
sit autem vestrum est est non non
uti non sub iudicio decidatis
13 tristatur aliquis vestrum oret
aequo animo est psallat
14 infirmatur quis in vobis
inducat presbyteros ecclesiae et orent super eum
unguentes eum oleo in nomine Domini
15 et oratio fidei salvabit infirmum
et adlevabit eum Dominus
et si in peccatis sit dimittentur ei
16 confitemini ergo alterutrum peccata vestra
et orate pro invicem ut salvemini
multum enim valet deprecatio iusti adsidua
17 Helias homo erat similis nobis passibilis
et oratione oravit ut non plueret super terram
et non pluit annos tres et menses sex
18 et rursum oravit et caelum dedit pluviam
et terra dedit fructum suum
19 fratres mei si quis ex vobis erraverit a veritate
et converterit quis eum
20 scire debet quoniam
qui converti fecerit peccatorem ab errore viae suae
salvabit animam eius a morte
et operit multitudinem peccatorum
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