For witnessing the vocation of the Gentiles, as being the Apostle of the Gentiles, he is in prison: 13 Wherein the Gentiles therefore have cause to rejoice, rather than to shrink. So he saith, 14 and also prayeth to God (who is almighty) to confirm their inward man, though the outward be infirmed by persecutions.For vvitnessing the vocation of the Gentils, as being the Apostle of the Gentils, he is in prison: 13 Wherein the Gentils therfore haue cause to reioyce, rather then to shrinke. So he saith, 14 and also praieth to God (vvho is almightie) to confirme their invvard man, though the outvvard be infirmed by persecutions.✦
For this cause, I Paul the prisoner of Jesus Christ, for you Gentiles:FOR this cause, I Paul the prisoner of IESVS Christ, for you Gentiles:✦Hujus rei gratia, ego Paulus vinctus Christi Jesu, pro vobis gentibus,
2if yet you have heard the dispensationem: an exemption or relaxation; stewardship, administration of the grace of God, which is given me toward you,if yet you haue heard the dispensation of the grace of God, vvhich is giuen me tovvard you,✦si tamen audistis dispensationem gratiæ Dei, quæ data est mihi in vobis :
3because according to revelation the sacramentum: a sacred mystery, the Catholic sense, not a mere ordinance was made known to me, as I have written before in brief:because according to reuelation the sacrament vvas made knovven to me, as I haue vvrittē before in breife:✦quoniam secundum revelationem notum mihi factum est sacramentum, sicut supra scripsi in brevi,
4according as you reading may understand my wisdom in the mystery of Christ,according as you reading may vnderstand my vvisedom in the mysterie of Christ,✦prout potestis legentes intelligere prudentiam meam in mysterio Christi :
5which unto other generations was not known to the sons of men, as now it is revealed in his holy Apostles and Prophets in the Spirit.vvhich vnto other generations vvas not knovven to the sonnes of men, as novv it is reuealed in his holy Apostles & Prophets in the Spirit.✦quod aliis generationibus non est agnitum filiis hominum, sicuti nunc revelatum est sanctis apostolis ejus et prophetis in Spiritu,
6The Gentiles to be coheirs and concorporales: of the same body and comparticipes: fellow partakers, joint sharers of his promise in Christ Jesus by the Gospel:The Gentils to be coheires & concorporat and comparticipant of his promis in Christ IESVS by the Gospel:✦gentes esse cohæredes, et concorporales, et comparticipes promissionis ejus in Christo Jesu per Evangelium :
7whereof I am made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God, which is given me according to the operation of his power.vvhereof I am made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God, vvhich is giuen me according to the operation of his povver.✦cujus factus sum minister secundum donum gratiæ Dei, quæ data est mihi secundum operationem virtutis ejus.
8To me the least of all the saints is given this grace, among the Gentiles to evangelize the unsearchable riches of Christ;To me * the least of al the sainctes is giuen this grace, among the Gentils to euangelize the vnsearcheable riches of Christ;✦Mihi omnium sanctorum minimo data est gratia hæc, in gentibus evangelizare investigabiles divitias Christi,
9and to illuminate all men what is the dispensation of the sacrament hidden from the worlds in God, who created all things:and to illuminate al men vvhat is the dispensatiō of the sacrament hidden `c` from the vvorldes in God, vvho created al thinges:✦et illuminare omnes, quæ sit dispensatio sacramenti absconditi a sæculis in Deo, qui omnia creavit :
10that the manifold wisdom of God, may be innotescat: formally informed; made known, made manifest to the Princes and potestatibus: the Powers, an order of angels in the celestials by the Church,that the manifold vvisedom of God, may be notified to the Princes and Potestats in the celestials by the Church,✦ut innotescat principatibus et potestatibus in cælestibus per Ecclesiam, multiformis sapientia Dei,
11according to the præfinitionem: the determination made beforehand, the foreordaining of worlds, which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord.according to the `c` prefinitiō of vvorldes, vvhich he made in Christ IESVS our Lord.✦secundum præfinitionem sæculorum, quam fecit in Christo Jesu Domino nostro :
12In whom we have fiduciam: trust, confidence, not betrothal and access in confidence, by the faith of him.In vvhom vve haue affiance and accesse in confidence, by the faith of him.✦in quo habemus fiduciam, et accessum in confidentia per fidem ejus.
13For the which cause I desire that you faint not in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.`b` For the vvhich cause I desire that you faint not in my tribulations for you, vvhich is your glorie.✦Propter quod peto ne deficiatis in tribulationibus meis pro vobis : quæ est gloria vestra.
14For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,For this cause I bovve my knees to the Father of our Lord IESVS Christ,✦Hujus rei gratia flecto genua mea ad Patrem Domini nostri Jesu Christi,
15of whom all paternitas: being the father of a particular child; fatherhood; every family named after a father in the heavens and in earth is named,of vvhom al paternitie in the heauens and in earth is named,✦ex quo omnis paternitas in cælis et in terra nominatur,
16that he give you according to the riches of his glory, power to be fortified by his Spirit in the inner man.that he giue you according to the riches of his glorie, povver to be fortified by his Spirit in the inner man.✦ut det vobis secundum divitias gloriæ suæ, virtute corroborari per Spiritum ejus in interiorem hominem,
17Christ to dwell by faith in your hearts: rooted and founded in charity,Christ to dvvel by faith in your hartes: rooted and founded `c` in charitie,✦Christum habitare per fidem in cordibus vestris : in caritate radicati, et fundati,
18that you may be able to comprehendere: to understand; to grasp, to lay hold of fully with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and height, and depth,that you may be able to comprehend vvith al the sainctes, vvhat is the bredth, and length, and height, and depth,✦ut possitis comprehendere cum omnibus sanctis, quæ sit latitudo, et longitudo, et sublimitas, et profundum :
19to know also the charity of Christ surpassing knowledge, that you may be filled unto all the fullness of God.to knovv also the charitie of Christ surpassing knovvledge, that you may be filled vnto al the fulnes of God.✦scire etiam supereminentem scientiæ caritatem Christi, ut impleamini in omnem plenitudinem Dei.
20And to him that is able to do all things more abundantly than we desire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us:And * to him that is able to doe al things more abundantly then vve desire or vnderstand, according to the povver that vvorketh in vs:✦Ei autem, qui potens est omnia facere superabundanter quam petimus aut intelligimus, secundum virtutem, quæ operatur in nobis :
21to him be all glory in the Church, and in Christ Jesus, unto all generations world without end. Amen.to him be al glorie in the Church, and in Christ IESVS, vnto al generations vvorld vvithout end. Amen.✦ipsi gloria in Ecclesia, et in Christo Jesu, in omnes generationes sæculi sæculorum. Amen.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition. Facsimile available in two scans.