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The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke 1353

unto you. 45 But if that servant shall say in his heart:
32 Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased My lord is long a coming; and shall begin to
your Father to give you a kingdom. strike the menservants and maidservants, and to
33 Sell what you possess and give alms. Make eat and to drink and be drunk:
to yourselves bags which grow not old, a trea- 46 The lord of that servant will come in the
sure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief day that he hopeth not, and at the hour that he
approacheth, nor moth corrupteth. knoweth not, and shall separate him, and shall
34 For where your treasure is, there will your appoint him his portion with unbelievers.
heart be also. 47 And that servant who knew the will of his
lord, and prepared not himself, and did not ac-
35 Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning
in your hands. cording to his will, shall be beaten with many
stripes.
36 And you yourselves like to men who wait
48 But he that knew not, and did things wor-
for their lord, when he shall return from the wed-
thy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.
ding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they
And unto whomsoever much is given, of him
may open to him immediately.
much shall be required: and to whom they have
37 Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord
committed much, of him they will demand the
when he cometh, shall find watching. Amen I
more.
say to you, that he will gird himself, and make
49 I am come to cast fire on the earth; and
them sit down to meat, and passing will minister
what will I, but that it be kindled?
unto them.
50 And I have a baptism wherewith I am to
38 And if he shall come in the second watch,
be baptized: and how am I straitened until it be
or come in the third watch, and find them so,
accomplished?
blessed are those servants.
51 Think ye, that I am come to give peace on
39 But this know ye, that if the householder
earth? I tell you, no; but separation.
did know at what hour the thief would come,
52 For there shall be from henceforth five in
he would surely watch, and would not suffer his
one house divided: three against two, and two
house to be broken open.
against three.
40 Be you then also ready: for at what hour
53 The father shall be divided against the
you think not, the Son of man will come. son, and the son against his father, the mother
41 And Peter said to him: Lord, dost thou against the daughter, and the daughter against
speak this parable to us, or likewise to all? the mother, the mother in law against her daugh-
42 And the Lord said: Who (thinkest thou) is ter in law, and the daughter in law against her
the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord set- mother in law.
teth over his family, to give them their measure 54 And he said also to the multitudes: When
of wheat in due season? you see a cloud rising from the west, presently
43 Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord you say: A shower is coming: and so it hap-
shall come, he shall find so doing. peneth:
44 Verily I say to you, he will set him over all 55 And when ye see the south wind blow, you
that he possesseth. say: There will be heat: and it cometh to pass.