1 Respiciens autem, vidit eos qui mittebant munera sua in gazophylacium, divites. 2 Vidit autem et quamdam viduam pauperculam mittentem æra minuta duo. 3 Et dixit: Vere dico vobis, quia vidua hæc pauper plus quam omnes misit. 4 Nam omnes hi ex abundanti sibi miserunt in munera Dei: hæc autem ex eo quod deest illi, omnem victum suum quem habuit, misit. 5 Et quibusdam dicentibus de templo quod bonis lapidibus et donis ornatum esset, dixit: 6 Hæc quæ videtis, venient dies in quibus non relinquetur lapis super lapidem, qui non destruatur. 7 Interrogaverunt autem illum, dicentes: Præceptor, quando hæc erunt, et quod signum cum fieri incipient? 8 Qui dixit: Videte ne seducamini: multi enim venient in nomine meo, dicentes quia ego sum: et tempus appropinquavit: nolite ergo ire post eos. 9 Cum autem audieritis prælia et seditiones, nolite terreri: oportet primum hæc fieri, sed nondum statim finis. 10 Tunc dicebat illis: Surget gens contra gentem, et regnum adversus regnum. 11 Et terræmotus magni erunt per loca, et pestilentiæ, et fames, terroresque de cælo, et signa magna erunt. 12 Sed ante hæc omnia injicient vobis manus suas, et persequentur tradentes in synagogas et custodias, trahentes ad reges et præsides propter nomen meum: 13 continget autem vobis in testimonium. 14 Ponite ergo in cordibus vestris non præmeditari quemadmodum respondeatis: 15 ego enim dabo vobis os et sapientiam, cui non poterunt resistere et contradicere omnes adversarii vestri. 16 Trademini autem a parentibus, et fratribus, et cognatis, et amicis, et morte afficient ex vobis: 17 et eritis odio omnibus propter nomen meum: 18 et capillus de capite vestro non peribit. 19 In patientia vestra possidebitis animas vestras. 20 Cum autem videritis circumdari ab exercitu Jerusalem, tunc scitote quia appropinquavit desolatio ejus: 21 tunc qui in Judæa sunt, fugiant ad montes, et qui in medio ejus, discedant: et qui in regionibus, non intrent in eam, 22 quia dies ultionis hi sunt, ut impleantur omnia quæ scripta sunt. 23 Væ autem prægnantibus et nutrientibus in illis diebus ! erit enim pressura magna super terram, et ira populo huic. 24 Et cadent in ore gladii, et captivi ducentur in omnes gentes, et Jerusalem calcabitur a gentibus, donec impleantur tempora nationum. 25 Et erunt signa in sole, et luna, et stellis, et in terris pressura gentium præ confusione sonitus maris, et fluctuum: 26 arescentibus hominibus præ timore, et exspectatione, quæ supervenient universo orbi: nam virtutes cælorum movebuntur: 27 et tunc videbunt Filium hominis venientem in nube cum potestate magna et majestate. 28 His autem fieri incipientibus, respicite, et levate capita vestra: quoniam appropinquat redemptio vestra. 29 Et dixit illis similitudinem: Videte ficulneam, et omnes arbores: 30 cum producunt jam ex se fructum, scitis quoniam prope est æstas. 31 Ita et vos cum videritis hæc fieri, scitote quoniam prope est regnum Dei. 32 Amen dico vobis, quia non præteribit generatio hæc, donec omnia fiant. 33 Cælum et terra transibunt: verba autem mea non transibunt. 34 Attendite autem vobis, ne forte graventur corda vestra in crapula, et ebrietate, et curis hujus vitæ, et superveniat in vos repentina dies illa: 35 tamquam laqueus enim superveniet in omnes qui sedent super faciem omnis terræ. 36 Vigilate itaque, omni tempore orantes, ut digni habeamini fugere ista omnia quæ futura sunt, et stare ante Filium hominis. 37 Erat autem diebus docens in templo: noctibus vero exiens, morabatur in monte qui vocatur Oliveti. 38 Et omnis populus manicabat ad eum in templo audire eum.
Luke 21 Clementine Vulgate
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Cross references (38)
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- 1 Mark 12:41–44; John 8:20; 2 Chronicles 36:18; Matthew 27:6; Nehemiah 13:13
- 2 Mark 12:42
- 3 2 Corinthians 8:12; Acts 10:34; 2 Corinthians 8:2–3; Exodus 35:21–29; Mark 12:43–44
- 4 Acts 2:44–45; Luke 15:12; Acts 4:34; Luke 8:43
- 5 Matthew 24:1–51; Mark 13:1–37; John 2:20
- 6 Mark 13:2; Matthew 24:2; Zechariah 14:2; Lamentations 5:18; Acts 6:13–14
- 7 Mark 13:3–4; Mark 13:14; Acts 1:6–7; Luke 21:27–28; Luke 21:20–21
- 8 1 John 4:1; Mark 13:5–6; Ephesians 5:6; 2 Thessalonians 2:3; Matthew 24:11
- 9 Luke 21:28; Matthew 24:6–8; Mark 13:7–8; Isaiah 51:12–13; Luke 21:18–19
- 10 Acts 2:19–20; Mark 13:8; Hebrews 12:27; Zechariah 14:13; Zechariah 14:2–3
- 11 Matthew 24:29–30; Luke 21:25–27
- 12 1 Peter 4:12–14; Acts 9:4; John 16:2–3; Acts 26:2–11; Acts 25:1–2
- 13 Philippians 1:28; Philippians 1:12; 2 Thessalonians 1:5; 1 Thessalonians 3:3–4
- 14 Luke 12:11–12; Mark 13:11; Matthew 10:19–20
- 15 Jeremiah 1:9; Ephesians 6:19; Luke 12:12; Acts 6:10; Exodus 4:11–12
- 16 Luke 12:53; Revelation 6:9; Matthew 10:21; Jeremiah 9:4; Micah 7:5–6
- 17 John 15:19; Luke 6:22; 2 Corinthians 12:10; John 15:21; Matthew 24:9
- 18 Matthew 10:30; 1 Samuel 14:45; Acts 27:34; Luke 12:7; 2 Samuel 14:11
- 19 Hebrews 10:36; Matthew 10:22; James 1:3; Romans 5:3; Revelation 3:10
- 20 Luke 19:43; Daniel 9:27; Mark 13:14; Matthew 24:15; Luke 21:7
- 21 Jeremiah 6:1; Mark 13:15; Proverbs 22:3; Exodus 9:20–21; Luke 17:31–33
- 22 Hosea 9:7; Isaiah 65:12–16; 2 Peter 2:9; Isaiah 34:8; Isaiah 63:4
- 23 Matthew 24:19; Mark 13:17; Luke 23:29; Lamentations 4:10; Deuteronomy 28:56–57
- 24 Romans 11:25; Revelation 11:2; Isaiah 63:18; Daniel 12:7; Daniel 9:27
- 25 Isaiah 13:10; Joel 2:30–31; Revelation 6:12–14; Daniel 12:1; Isaiah 24:23
- 26 Deuteronomy 28:65–67; Matthew 24:29; 2 Peter 3:10–12; Leviticus 26:36; Mark 13:25
- 27 Revelation 1:7; Matthew 24:30; Mark 13:26; Matthew 26:64; Daniel 7:13
- 28 Romans 8:23; Isaiah 60:1–2; Ephesians 4:30; Romans 8:19; Isaiah 12:1–3
- 29 Mark 13:28–30; Matthew 24:32–35
- 30 Luke 12:57
- 31 James 5:9; Hebrews 10:37; 1 Peter 4:7; Matthew 3:2; Luke 12:51–57
- 32 Matthew 24:34; Mark 13:30; Matthew 23:36; Matthew 16:28; Luke 11:50–51
- 33 Isaiah 40:8; Mark 13:31; Matthew 24:35; Isaiah 51:6; Psalm 102:26
- 34 Mark 4:19; Luke 12:45–46; Luke 12:40; 1 Thessalonians 5:2–8; 1 Peter 4:3–7
- 35 Revelation 16:15; Isaiah 24:17–18; Jeremiah 48:43–44; Luke 17:37; Psalm 11:6
- 36 1 John 2:28; Matthew 25:13; 1 Peter 5:8; Matthew 24:42; 1 Peter 4:7
- 37 Luke 22:39; Matthew 21:17; Mark 11:19; Matthew 26:55; Matthew 21:1
- 38 John 8:1–2
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What the Fathers said
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… set aside all their possessions for the Lord's purposes, bestowing joyfully and freely not the less valuable portions of their property, since they have the hope of better things [hereafter]; as that poor widow acted who cast all her living into the treasury of God.
I hear the voice of my God commanding, let not "your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness." "Drunkenness," it is far from me; Thou wilt have mercy, that it approach not near unto me.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
And elsewhere indeed He saith, "I will give you a mouth and wisdom;" but here, "It is the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you," advancing them unto the dignity of the prophets.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
These things have already come to pass; and again, And fearful sights from heaven, and mighty storms.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
… continually upon every occasion, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day shall come upon you unawares; for as a snare shall it come upon all dwelling upon the face of the earth." "Let your loins, therefore, be girded about, and your lights burning, and ye like to …