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LUC. II, 7-20. Et pastores erant in regione eadem, vigilantes et custodientes vigilias noctis super gregem suum. Et ecce angelus Domini stetit juxta illos, et claritas Dei circumfulsit illos, et timuerunt timore magno. Et dixit illis angelus: Nolite timere: ecce ego evangelizo vobis gaudium magnum, quod erit omni populo: quia natus est vobis hodie Salvator, qui est Christus Dominus in civitate David. Et hoc vobis signum: Invenietis infantem pannis invotutum, et positum in prasepio. Et subito facta est cum angelo multitudo militiæ coelestis, laudantium Deum, et dicentium: Gloria in altissimis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.
Luke 2:7-20. And there were in the same country shepherds watching and keeping the night watches over their flock. And behold an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the brightness of God shone round about them, and they feared with a great fear. And the angel said to them: Fear not; for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, that shall be to all the people; for this day is born to you a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David. And this shall be a sign unto you: You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will.
路加福音二章7至20節。在那地裡有牧羊的人，夜間按著更次看守羊群。有主的使者站在他們旁邊，主的榮光四面照著他們，牧羊的人就甚懼怕。那天使對他們說：「不要懼怕；看哪，我報給你們大喜的信息，是關乎萬民的；因今天在大衛的城裡，為你們生了救主，就是主基督。你們要看見一個嬰孩，包著布，臥在馬槽裡，那就是記號了。」忽然有一大隊天兵同那天使讚美神說：「在至高之處榮耀歸與神，在地上平安歸與他所喜悅的人。」
12:2
Et factum est, ut discesserunt ab eis angeli in coelum, pastores loquebantur ad invicem: Transeamus usque Bethleem, et videamus hoc verbum quod factum est, quod Dominus ostendit nobis. Et venerunt festinantes, et invenerunt Mariam, et Joseph, et infantem positum in praesepio. Videntes autem, cognoverunt de verbo quod dictum erat illis de puero hoc. Et omnes qui audierant mirati sunt, et de his quæ dicta erant a pasioribus ad ipsos. Maria autem conservabat omnia verba haec, conferens in corde suo. Et reversi sunt pastores, glorificantes ct laudantes Deum in omnibus quæ audierant et viderant, sicut dictum est ad illos.
And it came to pass, after the angels departed from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another: Let us go over to Bethlehem, and let us see this word that is come to pass, which the Lord hath shewed to us. And they came with haste, and they found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger. And seeing, they understood of the word that had been spoken to them concerning this child. And all that heard wondered, and at those things that were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
眾天使離開他們升天去了，牧羊的人彼此說：「我們往伯利恆去，看看所成的事，就是主所指示我們的。」他們急忙去了，就尋見馬利亞和約瑟，又有那嬰孩臥在馬槽裡。他們既然看見，就把天使論這孩子的話傳開了。凡聽見的，就詫異牧羊之人對他們所說的話。馬利亞卻把這一切的事存在心裡，反覆思想。牧羊的人回去了，因所聽見所看見的一切事，正如天使向他們所說的，就歸榮耀與神，讚美他。