1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Romans 12:1 | I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, *that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service. Philippians 4:18. | With this chapter St. Paul begins his second part, in which he gives us most excellent lessons of morality, after which every Christian should aim to form his life, and thus resemble Jesus Christ and his saints. (Haydock) --- That you present your bodies a living sacrifice. And how must this be done? says St. Chrysostom, hom. xx. Let the eye abstain from sinful looks and glances, and it is a sacrifice; the tongue from speaking ill, and it is a sacrifice, etc. --- Your reasonable service, or worship,{ Ver. 1. Rationabile obsequium, logiken latreian.|} from you; nothing being more reasonable, than for men to serve God with their souls and bodies, etc. (Witham) |