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Sabato, 27 aprile 2024 - Santa Zita ( Letture di oggi)

Lettera a Tito 2


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NOVA VULGATANEW JERUSALEM
1 Tu autem loquere, quae decentsanam doctrinam.
1 It is for you, then, to preach the behaviour which goes with healthy doctrine.
2 Senes, ut sobrii sint, pudici, prudentes, sani fide, dilectione, patientia.
2 Older men should be reserved, dignified, moderate, sound in faith and love and perseverance.
3 Anus similiter in habitu sanctae, non criminatrices, non vino multo deditae,bene docentes,3 Similarly, older women should behave as befits religious people, with no scandal-mongering and noaddiction to wine -- they must be the teachers of right behaviour
4 ut prudentiam doceant adulescentulas, ut viros suos ament,filios diligant,4 and show younger women how they should love their husbands and love their children,
5 prudentes sint, castae, domus curam habentes, benignae,subditae suis viris, ut non blasphemetur verbum Dei.
5 how they must be sensible and chaste, and how to work in their homes, and be gentle, and obey theirhusbands, so that the message of God is not disgraced.
6 Iuvenes similiter hortare, ut sobrii sint.6 Similarly, urge younger men to be moderate in everything that they do,
7 In omnibus teipsum praebensexemplum bonorum operum, in doctrina integritatem, gravitatem,7 and you yourself set an example of good works, by sincerity and earnestness, when you are teaching,and by a message sound and irreproachable
8 in verbo sanoirreprehensibilem, ut is, qui ex adverso est, vereatur, nihil habens malumdicere de nobis.
8 so that any opponent will be at a loss, with no accusation to make against us.
9 Servos dominis suis subditos esse in omnibus, placentes esse, noncontradicentes,9 Slaves must be obedient to their masters in everything, and do what is wanted without argument;
10 non fraudantes, sed omnem fidem bonam ostendentes, utdoctrinam salutaris nostri Dei ornent in omnibus.
10 and there must be no pilfering -- they must show complete honesty at al times, so that they are in everyway a credit to the teaching of God our Saviour.
11 Apparuit enim gratia Dei salutaris omnibus hominibus11 You see, God's grace has been revealed to save the whole human race;
12 erudiens nos, utabnegantes impietatem et saecularia desideria sobrie et iuste et pie vivamus inhoc saeculo,12 it has taught us that we should give up everything contrary to true religion and all our worldly passions;we must be self-restrained and live upright and religious lives in this present world,
13 exspectantes beatam spem et adventum gloriae magni Dei etsalvatoris nostri Iesu Christi;13 waiting in hope for the blessing which will come with the appearing of the glory of our great God andSaviour Christ Jesus.
14 qui dedit semetipsum pro nobis, ut nosredimeret ab omni iniquitate et mundaret sibi populum peculiarem, sectatorembonorum operum.
14 He offered himself for us in order to ransom us from al our faults and to purify a people to be his veryown and eager to do good.
15 Haec loquere et exhortare et argue cum omni imperio. Nemo te contemnat!
15 This is what you must say, encouraging or arguing with ful authority; no one should despise you.