This Epistle has been highly esteemed by several learned men of the church of Rome and others. The Quakers have printed a translation and plead for it, as the reader may see, by consulting Poole's Annotations on Col. vi. 16. Sixtus Senensis mentions two MSS., the one in the Sorbonne Library at Paris, which is a very ancient copy, and the other in the Library of Joannes a Viridario, at Padua, which he transcribed and published, and which is the authority for the following translation. There is a very old translation of this Epistle in the British Museum, among the Harleian MSS., Cod. 1212.

1. Ergaa Phaawuloos Ergamaa Warra Laodiqeetiif
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BOQONNAA 1
1 Phaawulos Ergamaa, obboloota Laodiqiyaa jiraniif Yesuus Kiristoosiin malee, kan namaa
miti, karaa namaa miti.
2 Ayyaanni fi Nagaan isiniif haa ta'u, Waaqayyo abbaa fi Gooftaa keenya Iyyasuus Kiristoos
biraa.
3 Guyyaa firdiitti wanta abdachiifame eeggachaa hojii gaarii irratti akka itti fuftaniif,
kadhannaa koo hundumaan Kiristoosiin nan galateeffadha.
4 Dhugaa Wangeela ani lallabe irraa akka isin fageessaniif, isin warra dhugaa jallisan isin
rakkina hin godhinaa.
5 Ammas Waaqayyo haa kennu, warri koo jijjiiran beekumsa dhugaa Wangeelaa guutuu ta’e
akka argatan, faayidaa akka qabaataniifi hojii gaarii fayyina waliin deemu akka hojjetan.
6 Ammas hidhaan koo inni Kiristoosiin dhiphadhu mul’ateera, itti gammaduu fi itti gammadu.
7 Kun bara baraan fayyina kootti akka deebi'u nan beeka, innis kadhannaa keessanii fi
dhiyeessii hafuura qulqulluutiin akka ta'u.
8 Yoon jiraadhus du'us; anaaf jiraachuun Kiristoosiif jireenya ta'a, du'uun gammachuu in ta'a.
9 Gooftaan keenyas jaalala wal fakkaataa akka qabaattaniif, akkasumas yaada tokko akka
qabaattaniif araara isaa nuuf kenna.
10 Kanaaf yaa jaalalleewwan koo, akkuma dhufaatii Gooftaa dhageessanitti, sodaadhaan
yaadaa, socho'aa, jireenyi bara baraa isiniif in ta'a;
11 Isin keessatti kan hojjatu Waaqayyo dha;
12 Waan hundumaas cubbuu malee hojjedhu.
13 Yaa jaalalleewwan koo, wanta gaarii taʼe, Gooftaa Yesus Kiristoositti gammadaa, buʼaa
xuraaʼaa hundumaas irraa fagaadhaa.
14 Kadhannaan keessan hundinuu Waaqayyootti haa beekamu, barumsa Kiristoos irrattis
jabaadhaa.
15 Wanti sirrii fi dhugaa, oduu gaarii, qulqulluu, qajeelaa fi jaallatamaa ta'e hundumaas, wanta
kana raawwadhu.
16 Wanta dhageessanii fi fudhattan, wantoota kana irratti yaadaa, nagaan isiniif in ta'a.
17 Qulqulloonni hundinuu nagaa isin gaafatu.
18 Ayyaanni Gooftaa keenya Iyyasuus Kiristoos hafuura keessanii wajjin haa ta'u. Ameen.
19 Ergaan kun warra Qolosaayisiif akka dubbifamu, Ergaan Qolosaayis immoo isin gidduutti
akka dubbifamu godhi.