Latin original · 1 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss · long chapter, split into parts; this part covers 3:77–3:77 (77 verses in all)
3:77
(4) nec vero quemquam nominari necesse est, licet nosmet ipsos plerique circumlatrent: sufficiet ut, si qui ex his haec legerit et agnoverit, erubescat. nam si irascitur, de se dictum fatebitur, cum fortasse nos de aliis senserimus. (5) non refugimus autem, ut, si qui eius modi sunt, nos quoque cum tali viro oderint. (6) illud facile confido, omnibus sanctis opusculum istud gratum fore. de cetero si qui haec infideliter legerit, ipse peccabit. (7) ego mihi conscius sum me, rerum fide et amore Christi impulsum ut scriberem, manifesta exposuisse, vera dixisse: paratumque, ut spero, habebit a Deo praemium, non quicumque legerit, sed quicumque crediderit.
(4) Nor indeed is it necessary that anyone be named, although many bark around even us ourselves: it will suffice that, if any of these shall have read these things and recognized himself, he should blush. For if he is angry, he will confess that it was said of himself, when perhaps we meant it of others. (5) And we do not shrink from this, that if any are of such a kind, they should hate us too along with such a man. (6) This I confidently trust: that this little work will be pleasing to all the saints. As for the rest, if anyone shall have read these things unbelievingly, he himself shall sin. (7) For my own part, I am conscious to myself that, impelled by faith in the matter and by love of Christ to write, I have set forth things manifest, have spoken things true; and he shall have, as I hope, a ready reward from God - not whoever shall have read, but whoever shall have believed.
(4)實在無需指名道姓，雖然有許多人甚至圍著我們自己狂吠：只消這樣便夠了——這些人中若有誰讀了這些話而認出自己，就當羞愧。因為他若惱怒，就等於承認這話是針對他自己說的，而我們或許原是指別人說的。(5)我們也不退縮：若有此等人，就讓他們連我們也一同與這樣一位偉人同恨罷。(6)我深信這一點：這小小的著作必蒙眾聖徒喜悅。至於其餘，若有人不信地讀這些話，他自己就要犯罪。(7)就我自己而言，我心裡確知：我是被對此事的信念和對基督的愛所驅使而寫，所陳述的是顯明的事，所說的是真實的話；並且如我所盼望的，他必從神得著現成的賞賜——不是凡讀過的人，乃是凡相信的人。