12:1 And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over us, laying aside every weight, and the sin that surroundeth us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:
Ideoque et nos tantam habentes impositam nubem testium, deponentes omne pondus, et circumstans nos peccatum, per patientiam curramus ad propositum nobis certamen:

12:2 Looking on Jesus the author and finisher of faith, who having joy proposed to him, underwent the cross, despising the shame, and sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.
aspicientes in auctorem fidei, et consummatorem Jesum, qui proposito sibi gaudio sustinuit crucem, confusione contempta, atque in dextera sedis Dei sedet.

12:3 For reflect upon him who endured such opposition from sinners against himself: that you be not wearied, fainting in your minds,
Recogitate enim eum qui talem sustinuit a peccatoribus adversum semetipsum contradictionem: ut ne fatigemini, animis vestris deficientes.

12:4 For you have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:
Nondum enim usque ad sanguinem restitistis, adversus peccatum repugnantes:

12:5 And you have forgotten the consolation which speaketh to you, as to children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord: neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him.
et obliti estis consolationis, quæ vobis tamquam filiis loquitur, dicens: Fili mi, noli negligere disciplinam Domini: neque fatigeris dum ab eo argueris.

12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth: and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Quem enim diligit Dominus, castigat: flagellat autem omnem filium, quem recipit.

12:7 Persevere in discipline. God offereth himself to you as to sons: for what son is there, whom the father doth not correct?
In disciplina perseverate. Tamquam filiis vobis offert se Deus: quis enim filius, quem non corripit pater?

12:8 But if you be without discipline, whereof all are made partakers: then are you bastards, and not sons.
quod si extra disciplinam estis, cujus participes facti sunt omnes: ergo adulteri, et non filii estis.

12:9 Moreover we have had indeed for instructors, the fathers of our flesh, and we reverenced them: shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits and live?
Deinde patres quidem carnis nostræ, eruditores habuimus, et reverebamur eos, non multo magis obtemperabimus Patri spirituum, et vivemus?

12:10 And they indeed for a few days instructed us according to their own will: but he, for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Et illi quidem in tempore paucorum dierum, secundum voluntatem suam erudiebant nos: hic autem ad id quod utile est in recipiendo sanctificationem ejus.

12:11 Now all discipline for the present indeed seemeth to bring not joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield to them that are exercised by it, the most peaceable fruit of justice.
Omnis autem disciplina in præsenti quidem videtur non esse gaudii, sed mœroris: postea autem fructum pacatissimum exercitatis per eam, reddet justitiæ.

12:12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,
Propter quod remissas manus, et soluta genua erigite,

12:13 And make straight steps with your feet: that no one halting may go astray, but rather be healed.
et gressus rectos facite pedibus vestris: ut non claudicans quis erret, magis autem sanetur.

12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see God:
Pacem sequimini cum omnibus, et sanctimoniam, sine qua nemo videbit Deum:

12:15 Looking diligently, lest any man be wanting to the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing up do hinder, and by it many be defiled.
contemplantes nequis desit gratiæ Dei: ne qua radix amaritudinis sursum germinans impediat, et per illam inquinentur multi.

12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau: who for one mess sold his first birth-right:
Ne quis fornicator, aut profanus ut Esau: qui propter unam escam vendidit primitiva sua:

12:17 For know ye that afterwards when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, although with tears he had sought it.
scitote enim quoniam et postea cupiens hæreditare benedictionem, reprobatus est: non enim invenit pœnitentiæ locum, quamquam cum lacrimis inquisisset eam.

12:18 For you are not come to a mountain that might be touched, and a burning fire, and a whirlwind, and darkness, and tempest,
Non enim accessistis ad tractabilem montem, et accensibilem ignem, et turbinem, et caliginem, et procellam,

12:19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which they that heard excused themselves, that the word might not be spoken to them.
et tubæ sonum, et vocem verborum, quam qui audierunt, excusaverunt se, ne eis fieret verbum.

12:20 For they did not endure that which was said: And if a beast shall touch the mountain, it shall be stoned.
Non enim portabant quod dicebatur: Et si bestia tetigerit montem, lapidabitur.

12:21 And so terrible was that which was seen, Moses said: I am frightened, and tremble.
Et ita terribile erat quod videbatur. Moyses dixit: Exterritus sum, et tremebundus.

12:22 But you are come to Mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of Angels,
Sed accessistis ad Sion montem, et civitatem Dei viventis, Jerusalem cælestem, et multorum millium angelorum frequentiam,

12:23 And to the church of the first-born, who are written in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,
et ecclesiam primitivorum, qui conscripti sunt in cælis, et judicem omnium Deum, et spiritus justorum perfectorum,

12:24 And to Jesus, the mediator of the new testament, and to the sprinkling of blood, which speaketh better than that of Abel.
et testamenti novi mediatorem Jesum, et sanguinis aspersionem melius loquentem quam Abel.

12:25 See that you refuse not him who speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon earth: much less we, who turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.
Videte ne recusetis loquentem. Si enim illi non effugerunt, recusantes eum, qui super terram loquebatur: multo magis nos, qui de cælis loquentem nobis avertimus.

12:26 Whose voice then moved the earth: but now he promiseth, saying: Yet once: and I will move not only the earth, but heaven also.
Cujus vox movit terram tunc: nunc autem repromittit, dicens: Adhuc semel, et ego movebo non solum terram, sed et cælum.

12:27 And in that he saith: Yet once: he signifieth the translation of the moveable things, as of the things that are made, that those things may remain which are immoveable.
Quod autem, Adhuc semel, dicit: declarat mobilium translationem tamquam factorum, ut maneant ea quæ sunt immobilia.

12:28 Wherefore receiving an immoveable kingdom, we have grace: whereby let us serve, pleasing God with fear and reverence.
Itaque regnum immobile suscipientes, habemus gratiam: per quam serviamus placentes Deo, cum metu et reverentia.

12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Etenim Deus noster ignis consumens est.