re, Lord?
17:37. Who said to them: Wheresoever the body shall be, thither will the
eagles also be gathered together.
Luke Chapter 18
We must pray always. The Pharisee and the publican. The danger of
riches. The blind man is restored to sight.
18:1. And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray
and not to faint,
18:2. Saying: There was a judge in a certain city, who feared not God
nor regarded man.
18:3. And there was a certain widow in that city; and she came to him,
saying: Avenge me of my adversary.
Avenge... That is, do me justice. It is a Hebraism.
18:4. And he would not for a long time. But afterwards he said within
himself: Although I fear not God nor regard man,
18:5. Yet because this widow is troublesome to me, I will avenge her,
lest continually coming she weary me.
18:6. And the Lord said: Hear what the unjust judge saith.
18:7. And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night?
And will he have patience in their regard?
18:8. I say to you that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of
man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?
18:9. And to some who trusted in themselves as just and despised others,
he spoke also this parable:
18:10. Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a Pharisee and
the other a publican.
18:11. The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give
thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust,
adulterers, as also is this publican.
18:12. I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess.
18:13. And the publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up
his eyes towards heaven; but struck his breast, saying: O God, be
merciful to me a sinner.
18:14. I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather
than the other: because every one that exalteth himself shall be
humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
18:15. And they brought unto him also infants, that he might touch them.
Which when the disciples saw, they rebuked them.
18:16. But Jesus, calling them together, said: Suffer children to come
to me and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
18:17. Amen, I say to you: Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of
God as a child shall not enter into it.
18:18. And a certain ruler asked him, saying: Good master, what shall I
do to possess everlasting life?
18:19. And Jesus said to him: W
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