The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church: Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of Ælfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I.Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham
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The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church: Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of Ælfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I.
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham
Sermons, English (Old)
Her is geræd on þissum godspelle, þe we nu gehyrdon of ðæs diacones muðe,
þæt "se Hælend gename onsundron his twelf leorning-cnihtas, and cwæð to
him, Efne we sceolon faran to ðære byrig Hierusalem, and þonne beoð
gefyllede ealle ða ðing þe wæron be me awritene þurh witegan. Ic sceal beon
belǽwed ðeodum, and hí doð me to bysmore, and beswingað, and syððan
ofsleað, and ic arise of deaðe on þam ðriddan dæge. Þa nyston his
leorning-cnihtas nan andgit þyssera worda. Ða gelámp hit þæt hí genealæhton
anre byrig þe is gehaten Hiericho, and ða sæt þær sum blind man be ðam
wege; and þaþa he gehyrde þæs folces fær mid þam Hælende, ða acsode he hwa
þær ferde. Hi cwædon him to, þæt þæt wære ðæs Hælendes fær. Þa begann he to
hrymenne, and cwæð, Hælend, Dauides Bearn, gemiltsa mín. Ða men, þe beforan
þam Hælende ferdon, ciddon ongean ðone blindan, þæt he suwian sceolde. He
clypode þa miccle swiðor, Hælend, Dauides Bearn, gemiltsa mín. Þa stód se
Hælend, and het lædan þone blindan to him. Þaða he genealæhte, þa acsode se
Hælend hine, Hwæt wylt ðu þæt ic þe dó? He cwæð, Drihten, þæt ic mage
geseon. And se Hælend him cwæð to, Loca nu: þin geleafa hæfð ðe gehæled.
And he ðærrihte geseah, and fyligde þam Hælende, and hine mærsode. Þa eal
þæt folc, þe þæt wundor geseh, herede God mid micelre onbryrdnysse."
Ðyses godspelles anginn hrepode ures Hælendes þrowunge, þeah-hwæðere ne
ðrowade hé na on ðysne timan; ac hé wolde feorran and lange ær cyðan his
ðrowunge his leorning-cnihtum, þæt hí ne sceoldon beon to swiðe afyrhte
þurh ða þrowunge, þonne se tima come þæt hé ðrowian wolde. Heora mód wearð
afyrht þurh Crístes segene, ac hé hí eft gehyrte mid þam worde þe hé cwæð,
"Ic arise of deaðe on þam ðriddan dæge." Þa wolde he heora geleafan
gestrangian {154} and getrymman mid wundrum. And hí ða comon to ðære stowe
þær se blinda man sæt be ðam wege, and Crist hine gehælde ætforan gesihðe
ealles þæs werodes, to ði þæt he wolde mid þam wundre hí to geleafan
gebringan. Þeah-hwæðere þa wundra þe Crist worhte, oðer ðing hí æteowdon
þurh mihte, and oðre ðing hí getacnodon þurh geryno. He worhte þa wundra
soðlice þurh godcunde mihte, and mid þam wundrum þæs folces geleafan
getrymde; ac hwæðre þær wæs oðer ðing digle on ðam wundrum, æfter gastlicum
andgite. Þes án blinda man getacnode eall mancynn, þe wearð ablend þurh
Adames gylt, and asceofen of myrhðe neoxena-wanges, and gebroht to ðissum
life þe is wiðmeten cwearterne. Nu sind we ute belocene fram ðam
heofenlican leohte, and we ne magon on ðissum life þæs ecan leohtes brucan;
ne we his na mare ne cunnon buton swa micel swa we ðurh Cristes lare on
bocum rædað. Þeos woruld, þeah ðe heo myrige hwíltidum geðuht sy, nis heo
hwæðere ðe gelicere ðære ecan worulde, þe is sum cweartern leohtum dæge.
Eal mancyn wæs, swa we ær cwædon, ablend mid geleaflæste and gedwylde; ac
þurh Cristes to-cyme we wurdon abrodene of urum gedwyldum, and onlihte þurh
geleafan. Nu hæbbe we þæt leoht on urum mode, þæt is Cristes geleafa; and
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