¹وقال ايضا لتلاميذه كان انسان غني له وكيل فوشي به اليه بانه يبذّر امواله.

¹And he said also to [his] disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and *he* was accused to him as wasting his goods.

²فدعاه وقال له ما هذا الذي اسمع عنك. اعط حساب وكالتك لانك لا تقدر ان تكون وكيلا بعد.

²And having called him, he said to him, What [is] this that I hear of thee? give the reckoning of thy stewardship, for thou canst be no longer steward.

³فقال الوكيل في نفسه ماذا افعل. لان سيدي يأخذ مني الوكالة. لست استطيع ان انقب واستحي ان استعطي.

³And the steward said within himself, What shall I do; for my lord is taking the stewardship from me? I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg.

⁴قد علمت ماذا افعل حتى اذا عزلت عن الوكالة يقبلوني في بيوتهم.

⁴I know what I will do, that when I shall have been removed from the stewardship I may be received into their houses.

⁵فدعا كل واحد من مديوني سيده وقال للأول كم عليك لسيدي.

⁵And having called to [him] each one of the debtors of his own lord, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord?

⁶فقال مئة بث زيت. فقال له خذ صكك واجلس عاجلا واكتب خمسين.

⁶And he said, A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take thy writing and sit down quickly and write fifty.

⁷ثم قال لآخر وانت كم عليك. فقال مئة كرّ قمح. فقال له خذ صكك واكتب ثمانين.

⁷Then he said to another, And thou, how much dost thou owe? And he said, A hundred cors of wheat. And he says to him, Take thy writing and write eighty.

⁸فمدح السيد وكيل الظلم اذ بحكمة فعل. لان ابناء هذا الدهر احكم من ابناء النور في جيلهم.

⁸And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own generation, more prudent than the sons of light.

⁹وانا اقول لكم اصنعوا لكم اصدقاء بمال الظلم حتى اذا فنيتم يقبلونكم في المظال الابدية.

⁹And *I* say to you, Make to yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, that when it fails ye may be received into the eternal tabernacles.

¹⁰الامين في القليل امين ايضا في الكثير. والظالم في القليل ظالم ايضا في الكثير.

¹⁰He that is faithful in the least is faithful also in much; and he that is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous also in much.

¹¹فان لم تكونوا امناء في مال الظلم فمن يأتمنكم على الحق.

¹¹If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?

¹²وان لم تكونوا امناء في ما هو للغير فمن يعطيكم ما هو لكم.

¹²and if ye have not been faithful in that which is another's, who shall give to you your own?

¹³لا يقدر خادم ان يخدم سيدين. لانه اما ان يبغض الواحد ويحب الآخر او يلازم الواحد ويحتقر الآخر. لا تقدرون ان تخدموا الله والمال

¹³No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will cleave to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

¹⁴وكان الفريسيون ايضا يسمعون هذا كله وهم محبون للمال فاستهزأوا به.

¹⁴And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and mocked him.

¹⁵فقال لهم انتم الذين تبررون انفسكم قدام الناس. ولكن الله يعرف قلوبكم. ان المستعلي عند الناس هو رجس قدام الله

¹⁵And he said to them, *Ye* are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what amongst men is highly thought of is an abomination before God.

¹⁶كان الناموس والانبياء الى يوحنا. ومن ذلك الوقت يبشر بملكوت الله وكل واحد يغتصب نفسه اليه.

¹⁶The law and the prophets [were] until John: from that time the glad tidings of the kingdom of God are announced, and every one forces his way into it.

¹⁷ولكن زوال السماء والارض ايسر من ان تسقط نقطة واحدة من الناموس.

¹⁷But it is easier that the heaven and the earth should pass away than that one tittle of the law should fail.

¹⁸كل من يطلّق امرأته ويتزوج باخرى يزني وكل من يتزوج بمطلّقة من رجل يزني

¹⁸Every one who puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery; and every one that marries one put away from a husband commits adultery.

¹⁹كان انسان غني وكان يلبس الارجوان والبز وهو يتنعم كل يوم مترفها.

¹⁹Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day.

²⁰وكان مسكين اسمه لعازر الذي طرح عند بابه مضروبا بالقروح.

²⁰And [there was] a poor man, by name Lazarus, [who] was laid at his gateway full of sores,

²¹ويشتهي ان يشبع من الفتات الساقط من مائدة الغني. بل كانت الكلاب تأتي وتلحس قروحه.

²¹and desiring to be filled with the crumbs which fell from the table of the rich man; but the dogs also coming licked his sores.

²²فمات المسكين وحملته الملائكة الى حضن ابراهيم. ومات الغني ايضا ودفن.

²²And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.

²³فرفع عينيه في الهاوية وهو في العذاب ورأى ابراهيم من بعيد ولعازر في حضنه.

²³And in hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

²⁴فنادى وقال يا ابي ابراهيم ارحمني وارسل لعازر ليبل طرف اصبعه بماء ويبرّد لساني لاني معذب في هذا اللهيب.

²⁴And he crying out said, Father Abraham, have compassion on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame.

²⁵فقال ابراهيم يا ابني اذكر انك استوفيت خيراتك في حياتك وكذلك لعازر البلايا. والآن هو يتعزى وانت تتعذب.

²⁵But Abraham said, Child, recollect that *thou* hast fully received thy good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted here, and *thou* art in suffering.

²⁶وفوق هذا كله بيننا وبينكم هوّة عظيمة قد أثبتت حتى ان الذين يريدون العبور من ههنا اليكم لا يقدرون ولا الذين من هناك يجتازون الينا.

²⁶And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those who desire to pass hence to you cannot, nor do they who [desire to cross] from there pass over unto us.

²⁷فقال اسألك اذا يا ابت ان ترسله الى بيت ابي.

²⁷And he said, I beseech thee then, father, that thou wouldest send him to the house of my father,

²⁸لان لي خمسة اخوة. حتى يشهد لهم لكي لا يأتوا هم ايضا الى موضع العذاب هذا.

²⁸for I have five brothers, so that he may earnestly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.

²⁹قال له ابراهيم عندهم موسى والانبياء. ليسمعوا منهم.

²⁹But Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them.

³⁰فقال لا يا ابي ابراهيم. بل اذا مضى اليهم واحد من الاموات يتوبون.

³⁰But he said, Nay, father Abraham, but if one from the dead should go to them, they will repent.

³¹فقال له ان كانوا لا يسمعون من موسى والانبياء ولا ان قام واحد من الاموات يصدقون

³¹And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, not even if one rise from among [the] dead will they be persuaded.