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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

I have never met a man so religious and devout that he has not experienced at some time a withdrawal of grace and felt a lessening of fervor.
Thomas a Kempis

Recently I read again of a woman who simply decided one day to make such a commitment to pray, and my conscience was pricked. But I knew myself well enough to know that something other than resolve was being called for. I began to pray about praying. I expressed to God my frustrated longings, my jaded sense of caution about trying again, my sense of failure over working at being more disciplined and regular. I discovered something surprising happening from such simple praying: I was drawn into the presence of One who had, far more than I did, the power to keep me close. I found my focus subtly shifting away from my efforts to God’s, from rigor to grace, from rigidity to relationship. I soon realized that this was happening regularly. I was praying much more. I became less worried about the mechanics and methods, and in turn I was more motivated. And God so cares for us, I realized anew, that He Himself helps us pray. When we “do not know what we ought to pray for… the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express” (Rom. 8:26) (Timothy Jones).
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Latin Vulgate Matthew Chapter 1:1-25.

Index: Latin Vulgate

 

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1:1 liber generationis Iesu Christi filii David filii Abraham

1:2 Abraham genuit Isaac Isaac autem genuit Iacob Iacob autem genuit Iudam et fratres eius

1:3 Iudas autem genuit Phares et Zara de Thamar Phares autem genuit Esrom Esrom autem genuit Aram

1:4 Aram autem genuit Aminadab Aminadab autem genuit Naasson Naasson autem genuit Salmon

1:5 Salmon autem genuit Booz de Rachab Booz autem genuit Obed ex Ruth Obed autem genuit Iesse Iesse autem genuit David regem

1:6 David autem rex genuit Salomonem ex ea quae fuit Uriae

1:7 Salomon autem genuit Roboam Roboam autem genuit Abiam Abia autem genuit Asa

1:8 Asa autem genuit Iosaphat Iosaphat autem genuit Ioram Ioram autem genuit Oziam

1:9 Ozias autem genuit Ioatham Ioatham autem genuit Achaz Achaz autem genuit Ezechiam

1:10 Ezechias autem genuit Manassen Manasses autem genuit Amon Amon autem genuit Iosiam

1:11 Iosias autem genuit Iechoniam et fratres eius in transmigratione Babylonis

1:12 et post transmigrationem Babylonis Iechonias genuit Salathihel Salathihel autem genuit Zorobabel

1:13 Zorobabel autem genuit Abiud Abiud autem genuit Eliachim Eliachim autem genuit Azor

1:14 Azor autem genuit Saddoc Saddoc autem genuit Achim Achim autem genuit Eliud

1:15 Eliud autem genuit Eleazar Eleazar autem genuit Matthan Matthan autem genuit Iacob

1:16 Iacob autem genuit Ioseph virum Mariae de qua natus est Iesus qui vocatur Christus

1:17 omnes ergo generationes ab Abraham usque ad David generationes quattuordecim et a David usque ad transmigrationem Babylonis generationes quattuordecim et a transmigratione Babylonis usque ad Christum generationes quattuordecim

1:18 Christi autem generatio sic erat cum esset desponsata mater eius Maria Ioseph antequam convenirent inventa est in utero habens de Spiritu Sancto

1:19 Ioseph autem vir eius cum esset iustus et nollet eam traducere voluit occulte dimittere eam

1:20 haec autem eo cogitante ecce angelus Domini in somnis apparuit ei dicens Ioseph fili David noli timere accipere Mariam coniugem tuam quod enim in ea natum est de Spiritu Sancto est

1:21 pariet autem filium et vocabis nomen eius Iesum ipse enim salvum faciet populum suum a peccatis eorum

1:22 hoc autem totum factum est ut adimpleretur id quod dictum est a Domino per prophetam dicentem

1:23 ecce virgo in utero habebit et pariet filium et vocabunt nomen eius Emmanuhel quod est interpretatum Nobiscum Deus

1:24 exsurgens autem Ioseph a somno fecit sicut praecepit ei angelus Domini et accepit coniugem suam

1:25 et non cognoscebat eam donec peperit filium suum primogenitum et vocavit nomen eius Iesum